I don't seem to be able to set the default printer in the Gnome print manager. 
I was able to modify the default printer within the printer configuration tool 
(which I think is called printconf-gui), but the Gnome print manager still shows 
the previous setting, no matter what I do.

On a possibly related note, I seem to be picking up the previous setting as the 
environment variable PRINTER, although I can't find where this is being defined.

Thanks for any help,

Bill Thompson

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 11:48:43 -0400, William Thompson wrote:

> I don't seem to be able to set the default printer in the Gnome print
> manager. I was able to modify the default printer within the printer
> configuration tool (which I think is called printconf-gui), but the
> Gnome print manager still shows the previous setting, no matter what I
> do.

There are bugs in printconf-gui, and the config files it produces are not
compatible with CUPS. Before Redhat fixes this, I recommend that you set
up your printers using the CUPS web interface (localhost:631). Delete the
old config, then set up printers as above. Print manager should pick it up
from there.

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Vladimir