Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (40 mails)

[BandiPat <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 28 August 2006 09:43, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> Hi all, I have an user 1000 km away from me, she's my 69 years old
> mother and she uses opensuse+kde to work with documents and
> spreadsheets. The problem is, if she starts printing with her usb
> printer turned off, CUPS disables the printer permanently, and this I
> think is a cups bug that I should report (correct behaviour is to
> start printing immediately when the printer is turned on), however I
> found no way, in the KDE user interface, to reenable the printer. I
> had to resort to allowing anonymous connections to localhost:631 and
> teach her how to enable the printer in an untranslated (although well
> working) web interface.
>
> In any case, the kde print system should warn the user when he/she
> prints on a disabled printer, report the reason CUPS states for the
> printer being disabled, and prompt the user for trying to re-enable
> the printer.
>
> If necessary I can file a couple of bug/wish reports, should I file
> them in bugzilla on the novell site?
>
> Bye and thanks
>
> Vincenzo
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Vincenzo,
How about "rccups restart" as root in a shell?  If that doesn't clear it 
up, just unplug the printer and plug it back.

regards,
Lee