Comments on: Changing the default printer on Linux and Firefox

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:59:11 +0000

The file modified by lpoptions is ~/.lpoptions, unless you run as root, then it's /etc/cups/lpoptions. See man lpoptions for details.

By: Charlie McBride

Charlie McBride — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:04:51 +0000

Hi, my name is Charlie and I am a web master that is a Linux fanatic. I remember a while back, searching goggle for Linux printer help. I think I remember seeing this blog somewhere along the way and did not know who Matt Cuts was than, sorry. Now I do, and that is very cool and so is Matt.
I understand how difficult Linux can be for some people, and I like helping people

Charlie

By: Gowthaman

Gowthaman — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:53:50 +0000

Start -> system -> prefernce->more prefernce -> printer
brings all the 28 printers we have in the building……(also highlights the current default printer). just change it you are good to go…………

and this is Cent OS

By: kral oyun

kral oyun — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:23:22 +0000

that works, unless you want the default printer to be generic postscript and then firefox doesn’t seem to be able to remember that at all.

By: Anne Scoffield

Anne Scoffield — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:57:30 +0000

This is it! I’m using ubuntu now, this page will be a great help!

By: Michael Thomas

Michael Thomas — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:06:07 +0000

Bob Marker,

GIMP, yeah, that name is stupid isn’t it, I wonder why in the hell the Gnu Image Manupilation Project would call their program GIMP. And CUPS I suppose is equally as strange. Why should the Common Unix Printer Service have such a silly name!

By: indir

indir — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:28:24 +0000

Puzzler – Good points, though I was surprised how well my lowly blog posts were doing for several specific searches until recent indexing problems that appear to be Wordpress related. The key questions are not backlink related, they are “what is the most relevant page for this query and is Google showing that page as the top”? Google does OK but not great using this measure.

By: oyun

oyun — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:18:06 +0000

That’s way too easy. Where is the challenge in that? There must be a more complicated way to get something to print.
Yes her road must become for me

By: Anthony Bradley

Anthony Bradley — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:27:55 +0000

Weren’t computers invented to do the complex stuff for us mere mortals? So, why is it that some people persist in making them harder to understand and use, and worse still wanting it that way?

If the geeks are so smart then make computers truly easy to use. Normal people don’t have the time to learn strange syntax just to print something.

That is why Linux is not adopted by the masses.

By: oyun

oyun — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:16:57 +0000

That’s way too easy. Where is the challenge in that? There must be a more complicated way to get something to print.