Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (40 mails)

[John King <johnmking_uk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 28 August 2006 14:43, 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.
>

Try KDE Control Centre - peripherals - printers

Right clicking on the stopped printer should provide the opportunity to start 
it.

password needs to be given, but it can be saved.

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regards

John

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