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. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- jeffrey anderson | [log in to unmask] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Mailstop 50a-5101 Phone: 510 486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-6808