hi all, I have recently migrated to SuSE. I have SuSE 9.1 running on my comp. I am in a research group and I need to use a network printer that has it's own ip address. I tried to configure using the Printers option in Start menu > Utilities > Printing > Printers. The first time I invoked this menu the Configure - Printing Manager window came up and said that it's 'trying to configure the printers', or something similar to this. I actually had no printers attached to my computer. This was the first time I invoked. I clicked on the Add menu in the Printing Manager window, a wizard came up in which it asked me select one of the available printer options, but I couldn't select any of these because everything was in grey and none of them were active. The forward button was active, so when I pressed the forward button it wouldn't go forward, but say that I had to select one of the options, which I couldn't as none of them was active. So I closed the wizard using the 'close' button with the intention of starting all over again. That's it. After this I tried to invoke the Printing Manager again from the Start Menu > Utilities > .... but it's even starting up. It shows up this window Configure - Printing Manager which doesn't respond to anything, doesn't even close if use the x button on the window. When I try to close the window from the taskbar, it gives me the follwing message: 'Window with title "Configure - Printing Manager" is not responding. This window belongs to application kcmshell (PID=6556, hostname=localhost). Do you wish to terminate this application? (All unsaved data in this application will be lost.)' After this I even rebooted system thinking that the problem would clear up, but to no avail. Can anyone help in resolving this problem? Not only with this, but sometimes this kind of thing happens with someother applications also. Like when I try to Klipper contents it also hangs like this. I either have to kill this, or close it like I did above with the Printing Manager. It would be nice if someone can tell me what this cupsd and lp processes that are running in the background. They come up all of a sudden when I invoke top. I am in a computational chem. gp. So my comp is my life blood. These two processes take up a lot of memory, so what I have been doing is to kill these processes whenever they come up. Am I harming the system? Does this have anything to with the above problem with the Printing Manager? Sorry for such a long mail. Couldn't help it. Thanks for any help and patience. Regards, Chaitanya. Indian Inst. of Science, India. www.iisc.ernet.in Propelled by Open Source SuSE 9.1 Opera KDE 3.3 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com