Re: [Evolution] How to set kprinter --stdin as default printer in Evo?

[John Clay <john clay lfr com>]

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 15:06, guenther wrote:
> > > To change from lpr to "kprinter --stdin" you must edit the following
> > > line
> > > output=command,lpr
> >
> > Edited file to read: output=command,kprinter --stdin
>
> I believe, the " charters where meant to be around it... ;-)

My mistake  -  "output=command,kprinter --stdin"   does work.

I didn't notice that I needed to select "generic postscript" printer in
the "name" field of the printer selection dialog box.

Thanks for the help.
John Clay

> > > obviously replacing lpr with "kprinter --stdin".
> > >
> > > You must restart evolution for the change to take effect.
> >
> > Restarted Evolution and found that the "printer" selection section was
> > grayed out and the default was set to print to file. kprinter --stdin
> > didn't show up as an option.
> >
> > I then changed an additional line from "driver=gnome-print-ps2" to
> > "driver=kprinter". That didn't help.
> >
> > KDE is my default desktop. Perhaps there an analogous file for the K
> > Desktop Environment?
>
> Evolution, as a Gnome application, will respect Gnome settings -- no
> matter if there is an analogous file for KDE or not.
>
> ...guenther