On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 05:29 -0500, pursley1@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > What makes this whole thing even worse, my system even has a > "system-config-printer-applet" file but when I run it, nothing happens > and I can't install it on either panel. I even covered the contingency > of in case my user account needed to belong to the "lp" group. Any > ideas why that part of my system is not available? You need to run it as: system-config-printer-applet --no-tray-icon By default, the tray icon will only show if there are print jobs in the queue. -- Mark Knoop