From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 16 21:43:39 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 3830416A400 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:43:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10CBF13C48A for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:43:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBDF5197C for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:43:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:43:35 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070416224335.2737b2b6@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <200704152207.35256.daeg@houston.rr.com> References: <200704152149.58154.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <200704152207.35256.daeg@houston.rr.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 21:43:39 -0000 On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:07:34 -0500 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. I rarely every print anything these days, but I have printed through KDE in the past from Firefox. The terse note I made about it at the time was: kprinter --stdin presumably you could just put this in Opera as the print command.