On 01/06/2008 04:23 PM, Jeffrey Anderson wrote: > 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. I believe this is what the KDE print dialog does as well: http://printing.kde.org/faq/kdeprint.php#HowdoIcreateaglobalinstanceaccessibletoallusers In addition/alternatively, you might be able to set a per-user default printer via the LPDEST or PRINTER environment variables. Nevertheless, your local "lpr" or "lp" command will need to know about this printer for things to work (e.g. via /etc/printcap for "plain" lpr, or /etc/cups/printers.conf for CUPS). Best regards Jan