From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QeCcD-00024v-7c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:53:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C70A21C023; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 20:51:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560A521C023 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 20:51:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywm21 with SMTP id 21so3520973ywm.40 for ; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:51:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=d++gL8wzUKznvYGx3J+/3LB3nxSyVQlFtKMWanPjJZM=; b=vJVWteGTnyMOAlvLytbThpdXM0OIh9jHPyBUwJSgnFNyGi/NHmz+xhQhnu79R995kR dmoDf8+lS+0LWIurBUt5HPK3wrmqizc2LxJUveTE+YI9XixW0UZKhInC8XXlMi/9Kj/t qxy4zXmWO1shr0zSaDZdAdEm8qJz6a6K3l9Vg= Received: by 10.236.136.98 with SMTP id v62mr8447703yhi.73.1309899098794; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-129-33.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.129.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w70sm5060744yhl.17.2011.07.05.13.51.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E137958.7050700@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:51:36 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110705 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing printing options from within application References: <201106192135.46063.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4DFEA682.8060505@gmail.com> <201107052133.43126.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201107052133.43126.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 962d24546195f143f892fb59611ee260 Mick wrote: > On Monday 20 Jun 2011 02:46:42 Dale wrote: > >> Mick wrote: >> >>> Perhaps I'm doing this wrong, but I can't change print settings from >>> within an application, e.g. using Okular, FF, etc. I cannot change from >>> colour to greyscale. >>> >>> I can only change these settings if I login to http://localhost:631 and >>> change the printer default settings there. >>> >>> Is this how it is meant to work - what are plain users meant to do? >>> >>> PS. This is a networked printer. >>> >> Are the users in the correct groups? Mine looks like this: >> >> root@fireball / # cat /etc/group | grep lp >> lp::7:lp,dale,dale2 >> lpadmin:x:106:dale >> root@fireball / # >> >> There could be other groups that are needed but checking those are a >> good idea too. >> > Thank you Dale, the lpadmin was missing. It seems I was being extra cautious > when I first set up cups on this machine a few years ago ... > > Well, nothing worse than coming home to find out someone you don't know printed a very large book. Naturally, it would be a book you have absolutely no interest in reading. ;-) Glad you got it sorted. Dale :-) :-)