Printer preferences and FC4

[Craig White]

You might want to try completely disable the 'cups-config-daemon'
service as it tends to do things on its own...

service cups-config-daemon stop
chkconfig cups-config-daemon off

set your printer settings and see if they survive reboot.

Craig

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 22:29 +0100, bengt.lindholm at salnet.fi wrote:
> I used system-config-printer to configure the printers and the "http:
> //localhost:631" only to check if the printers were as I wanted. The only 
> problem with the printers is, that I have to channge the paper size from letter 
> to A4: after every reboot, every   application, every printer....
> 
> I would really prefer, if the applications were able to have a look at the 
> system-config-printer defaults (or the http://localhost:631 - cups-defaults) 
> and use those. I do not like to use bad language, but Windows (sorry, sorry...) 
> has solved that problem, why not Linux? So, how to fix it?
> 
> Bengt
> 
> 
> >System-config-printer / Cups= localhost:631 was configured at
> >FC4-installation time to use A4 paper size and still is. Firefox,
> >Evolution, Adobe Reader, Gimp etc. make no use of that configuration. I
> >even reconfigured all the printers, but no luck there. What to do?
> 
> >Bengt
> 
> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 13:39 +0200, Bengt Lindholm wrote:
> >> Hi
> > >
> > >
> > >When printing I use A4 paper size, but every application gives letter,
> >> at least after reboot. I'm tired of continual paper size fixing. Is
> >> there any way to make the A4 size the preferred size for all the
> >> applications and printers with one command and to last over the reboots?
> > >
> > >Bengt
>