Does XFCE Know About CUPS?

[Patrick Wiseman]

I'm having the same problem; "Unable to sent [sic] job to printer" is the
error I get, and, yes, xfprint knows my printer by its system name.

Patrick

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, KUTYLA Peggy wrote:

:Hi,
:
:Did you put your printer name and ONLY your printer name in the field
:systeme name you don't have to write "lp my_printer"
:
:Peggy
:
:billg a écrit :
:> 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.
:>
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