From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 16 03:14:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2346216A401 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:14:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E8613C458 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:14:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.141] (may be forged)) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l3G3EmtT011277 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:14:48 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-24-7-142-221.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.7.142.221]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l3G3Elmk003615 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:14:48 -0700 Message-ID: <4622EA42.4040902@u.washington.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:15:14 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200704152149.58154.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <200704152207.35256.daeg@houston.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200704152207.35256.daeg@houston.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.0.289146, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.4.15.200035 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: trouble printing from opera 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: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:14:49 -0000 David J Brooks wrote: > On Sunday 15 April 2007 09:49:57 pm you wrote: >> im running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3, with KDE, cups, and most current opera. >> i can print from everything else i use (which is i guess just kmail... but >> i did test from konqueror, and that works too), but i cannot get opera to >> send a job to my printer. >> >> if i go to the KDE printer manager, i can send a sucessful test page, but >> opera just quietly prints nothing. where should i start looking to find >> out where the breakdown is? >> >> thanks, > > I've never found a way to make non-KDE apps print from the KDE print manager. > My solution has been to print to pdf and then load that into Kpdf and print > from there. If there's a better way to do it, I'd love to learn how. > > David Can't you setup KDE / your apps to print straight out to a printer using lpr? -Garrett