[SOLVED] no printer visible in Lotus Notes Slackware 14

johanneshau · 10-07-2013, 06:33 AM

Hi,

I have Notus Lotus 8.5.3 (client) running under Slackware 14. Most things I use work. But I cannot print anything; the printer list is always empty.
There are two networked printers installed, one is an HP via <socket://ip.address>
the other one is a Konica/Minolta via <lpd://ip.address>

I am able to print to both printers from other applications.
CUPS is version 1.5.4

Additionally to Lotus Notes I installed a number of GNOME packages:
- gnome-vfs-2.24.4-i486-2sl.txz
- libbonobo-2.24.3-i486-3sl.txz
- libbonoboui-2.24.5-i486-1sl.txz
- libgnome-2.30.0-i486-1sl.txz
- libgnomecanvas-2.30.3-i486-1sl.txz
- libgnomecups-0.2.3-i486-7sl.txz
- libgnomeprint-2.18.8-i486-1sl.txz
- libgnomeprintui-2.18.6-i486-1sl.txz
- libgnomeprint2.2-data_2.18.8-3_all.tgz
- libgnomeprintui2.2-common_2.18.5-1_all.tgz
- libgnomeui-2.24.5-i486-1sl.txz

Any hints are appreciated - thank you!

Johannes

johanneshau · 10-07-2013, 07:25 AM

I found the answer to my own question, sorry for the noise.
It said in /var/log/cups/error_log "Unsupported character set iso-8859-1"

So I searched about this; it seems that CUPS is most happy with UTF-8. Apparently Lotus Notes is using ISO8859-1 coding.
I created a notes-wrapper script, which sets UTF-8 before launching Lotus Notes:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
exec /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/notes

I made it executable and call it in the application starter (.desktop file).

Now I can see the installed CUPS printers in the Lotus Notes print dialog.

Johannes

rkfb · 10-07-2013, 01:14 PM

Best first two posts I've seen by anyone.