On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 03:29 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:

Michael James wrote:

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Is there a way of setting the default printer on a per user basis?

Better than aliasing "lp" to "lp -d $PRINTER" ?

If you are using KDE, open the print manager, click on the printer you want as your default. Click on the "Instances" tab, then click the "set as default" button. If you are not using KDE, use the equivalent print manager in whatever desktop you do use. You can also use the commandline lpoptions util (man lpoptions). I suspect the desktop print managers are probably all just frontends for lpoptions.

All your user print options are maintained in ~/.lpoptions

Also in kmenu->Utilities->Printing->Printing Manager, at the top are -1- and 1- icons which are used to set the system default and the user default printer. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 14:09 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:

Hello,

On May 9 17:26 Michael James wrote (shortened):

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Is there a way of setting the default printer on a per user basis?

See the CUPS documentation, in particular see "man lpoptions". To be aware of limitations in the network and of possible confusion, see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/11/jsmeix_print-cups-options.html

This will partially help the OP but the man page is almost useless. "-o option=value" is useless as it does not provide a list of what options are available. And someone new to cups will be totally lost as to what to supply as an option or where to look for any options. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge