Re: configuring the lpr/lpd backend

On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 10:28 +0200, Alexander Wuerstlein wrote:
> On 09-08-09 02:15, Matthias Clasen <mclasen <at> redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:21 +0200, Alexander Wuerstlein wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I'm using lprng as a printing system. In Gnome, the printing dialogs
> > > show up empty except for "print to file". From looking at the source of
> > > libgnomeprint i figured that there is an lpr/lpd backend which should be
> > > able to parse /etc/printcap.
> > > 
> > > The problem is, I can't find out where this backend is enabled. Could
> > > you point me somewhere? Specifically I'm looking for some setting which
> > > is system-wide (for all users) and which I can distribute to a room full
> > > of computers, so clicking somewhere is out of the question :)
> > > 
> > > Please CC me on the answers, since I'm not subscribed to the list.
> > 
> > Put
> > 
> > gtk-print-backends="file,lpr"
> > 
> > in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0
> 
> Yes, of course I did that already, that was the first thing I tried. But
> that doesn't fix my problem: Its not, that lpr doesn't show up as a
> printing option. Its that there is no list of printers read from
> printcap from which a user could select the printer to print to. So one
> always has to modify the command line for lpr in the dialogue instead of
> just clicking on the printer's name.