Comments on: Changing the default printer on Linux and Firefox

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.
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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.

By: Bob Maple

Bob Maple — Fri, 04 May 2007 21:04:16 +0000

THANK YOU!

My God, why is it so hard to figure out these things? Can’t someone just write programs people can use?

CUPSD? What does that even mean? Was it named by oversexed, pimply-faced 14 years olds boys?

Sorry, needed to vent. It shouldn’t be this hard to set a default printer. You should just have to type in “CUPS default printer” and just see the answer in the first google thing. And programs shouldn’t have stupid, obscure names. CUPSD? GIMP? Who names this stuff?

By: Tony Lawrence

Tony Lawrence — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:56:03 +0000

On some Unix systems, LPDEST is the variable to export.

On most Unixish systems, “lpadmin -d printername” sets the default printer - I think CUPS respects that also.

On Mac OS X, you can set environment variables for apps that don’t have a shell: see http://aplawrence.com/MacOSX/secret_stuff.html

By: Bob Mutch

Bob Mutch — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:47:08 +0000

Hey Matt why don’t you put the article title in the title tag first instead of “Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO »”.

Even if you think it doesn’t matter for ranking weight and you don’t care where you rank, I think a title like “Changing the default printer on Linux and Firefox » Matt Cutts …” is going to help the human consumer more that “Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » Changing the default …”

Looks like you could use a bit of SEO help : )