From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 29 02:03:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747EA1065788 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:03:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gandalf@shopzeus.com) Received: from viefep18-int.chello.at (viefep18-int.chello.at [213.46.255.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E328FC08 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:03:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gandalf@shopzeus.com) Received: from edge01.upc.biz ([192.168.13.236]) by viefep13-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.7.08.02.00 201-2186-121-20061213) with ESMTP id <20081129020357.SVDY1745.viefep13-int.chello.at@edge01.upc.biz>; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:03:57 +0100 Received: from [192.168.0.100] ([89.134.230.181]) by edge01.upc.biz with edge id kq3s1a00A3vUdip01q3wyd; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:03:57 +0100 X-SourceIP: 89.134.230.181 Message-ID: <4930A308.8050603@shopzeus.com> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:03:52 +0100 From: Laszlo Nagy User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: raggen@raggens.net References: <492E4F79.7090309@shopzeus.com> <49302479.6080505@telia.com> In-Reply-To: <49302479.6080505@telia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS: cannot see printer from various program X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:03:59 -0000 > > 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