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Re: Default printer in SL5
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Jeffrey Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 6 Jan 2008 07:23:20 -0800
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On Sunday 06 January 2008, Steve White <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> My colleague can configure his SL5 workstation to print without CUPS,
> using KDE.
>
> I gather from this discussion that the SL5 distro Gnome desktop does not
> provide a way to configure the system to print directly to a networked
> printer *without CUPS*, although the KDE desktop does.

lpoptions -d MYPRINTER 

should set the default printer for the system.  It doesn't really have 
anything to do with your choice of desktop.  The gui desktops may or may not 
include a graphical thingy to perform this, but that is certainly not 
necessary.


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