Does XFCE Know About CUPS?

Sami Samhuri sami at no-eff-eks.com
Fri Jun 4 11:35:06 CEST 2004


* It was Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:34:13PM -0400 when billg said:
> I'm trying to get a new installation of XFCE 4.0.5 to work with my CUPS
> printer, to no avail. 
> 
> Regardless of what I enter in the "System Name" entry of the "Printer
> Management" tool, it prints an error declaring "Neither lp nor lpr was
> found in PATH, therefore xfprint was unable to print the file." This
> holds true even if I use lp or lpr as the name of the printer (and, yes,
> they are in the path).
> 
> I've also used the dev name (/dev/lp0) and the CUPS name.  Neither
> worked.
> 
> I'd conclude that xfprint simply doesn't work with CUPS and give up on
> XFCE, but the fact that it whines about not finding lp/lpr even if one of
> them is identified as the printer makes me wonder if it is just broken,
> 
> BTW, the  equivalent on my machine to lp and lpr is lpr-cups, but xfprint
> doesn't like that, either.

I use cups and just set mine to lp.

-- 
Sami Samhuri
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