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@xxxxxxxxx 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 >
