Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:03:52 +0100 From: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> To: raggen@raggens.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS: cannot see printer from various program Message-ID: <4930A308.8050603@shopzeus.com> In-Reply-To: <49302479.6080505@telia.com> References: <492E4F79.7090309@shopzeus.com> <49302479.6080505@telia.com>
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> > Hello Laszlo, > > You might want to add the following lines to /etc/make.conf > > CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes > NO_LPR=yes > WITH_CUPS=yes > > And rebuild the application you want to print from. > > (The above was found on the excellent guide at > http://www.math.colostate.edu/~reinholz/freebsd/) Thank you! I already have a running system, so I had to setenv WITH_CUPS cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20 make deinstall make install clean I do not fully understand why it is done this way. Most users - including me - are going to install gnome2 first, and most likely CUPS is not installed by that time. It is also true that many users who install gnome2 will have a printer and want to use it. So I would recommend to create a make option "[X] CUPS support" for gtk20, or at least for gnome2. It was quite hard to find information about this issue on the internet! Should I post a PR for this? (It is not a real bug but I think it causes problems for many users.) Thanks, Laszlo
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