Hi, I have a fedora38 desktop install, and when I go to the main System Settings menu, there is no option to configure printers in the Hardware section.
What package am I missing in order to configure/detect/install new printers?
This is a complete reinstall on the same computer where I had fedora37. I have a Brother HL-L2370DW series printer.
The printer is available when I try to print from gnome-text-editor, but not from within Chrome. I think it must be automatically detected each time I try to print with gedit, but it appears more is needed to be set up with Chrome, which I would imagine starts with proper CUPS configuration.
I'm aware of the web-browser interface to CUPS, but want to use the GNOME interface to start instead.
Thanks, Alex
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 9:14 PM Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 8/13/23 18:10, Alex wrote:
Hi, I have a fedora38 desktop install, and when I go to the main System Settings menu, there is no option to configure printers in the Hardware section.
It's in the main top-level list.
Do you mean in the main System Settings? It's not there. Even searching shows no results.
Thanks, Alex
On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 21:21:46 -0400 Alex mysqlstudent@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 9:14 PM Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 8/13/23 18:10, Alex wrote:
Hi, I have a fedora38 desktop install, and when I go to the main System Settings menu, there is no option to configure printers in the Hardware section.
It's in the main top-level list.
Do you mean in the main System Settings? It's not there. Even searching shows no results.
Thanks, Alex
Applications->System->Print Settings
You will need to have the CUPS package installed, and the two driver packages from Brother.
On Sun, 2023-08-13 at 18:32 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 21:21:46 -0400 Alex mysqlstudent@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 9:14 PM Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 8/13/23 18:10, Alex wrote:
Hi, I have a fedora38 desktop install, and when I go to the main System Settings menu, there is no option to configure printers in the Hardware section.
It's in the main top-level list.
Do you mean in the main System Settings? It's not there. Even searching shows no results.
Thanks, Alex
Applications->System->Print Settings
You will need to have the CUPS package installed, and the two driver packages from Brother.
I don't think you need the Brother packages now. I have a DCP-L2530DW and it works fine with the builtin CUPS driver, including double-sided printing and scanning.
poc
On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 9:33 PM Geoffrey Leach geoffleach.gl@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 21:21:46 -0400 Alex mysqlstudent@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 9:14 PM Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 8/13/23 18:10, Alex wrote:
Hi, I have a fedora38 desktop install, and when I go to the main System Settings menu, there is no option to configure printers in the Hardware section.
It's in the main top-level list.
Do you mean in the main System Settings? It's not there. Even searching shows no results.
Thanks, Alex
Applications->System->Print Settings
I don't have that menu. I have System Settings, but then nothing about Printers or Print Settings in that menu.
You will need to have the CUPS package installed, and the two driver packages from Brother.
I have all the cups packages already installed. I do think I'm still missing something, though.
$ rpm -qva|grep cups cups-libs-2.4.6-1.fc38.x86_64 cups-filesystem-2.4.6-1.fc38.noarch cups-pk-helper-0.2.7-2.fc38.x86_64 cups-client-2.4.6-1.fc38.x86_64 python3-cups-2.0.1-16.fc38.x86_64 cups-ipptool-2.4.6-1.fc38.x86_64 libcupsfilters-2.0~rc2-1.fc38.x86_64 cups-2.4.6-1.fc38.x86_64 cups-filters-2.0~rc2-1.fc38.x86_64 gutenprint-cups-5.3.4-10.fc38.x86_64 bluez-cups-5.68-1.fc38.x86_64 cups-browsed-2.0~rc2-1.fc38.x86_64
On Mon, 2023-08-14 at 10:27 -0400, Alex wrote:
Applications->System->Print Settings
I don't have that menu. I have System Settings, but then nothing about Printers or Print Settings in that menu.
Sounds like you're using KDE/Plasma (or some other DE different from Gnome).
If it's Plasma, open System Settings and search for 'printer' in the search box. It should appear under Hardware.
poc
On 08/13/2023 07:21 PM, Alex wrote:
Do you mean in the main System Settings? It's not there. Even searching shows no results.
Try going to http://127.0.0.1:631/
On 8/13/23 18:21, Alex wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 9:14 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@sieb.net mailto:samuel@sieb.net> wrote:
On 8/13/23 18:10, Alex wrote: > Hi, I have a fedora38 desktop install, and when I go to the main System > Settings menu, there is no option to configure printers in the Hardware > section. It's in the main top-level list.
Do you mean in the main System Settings? It's not there. Even searching shows no results.
Are you using a desktop other than Gnome?
Alex:
Do you mean in the main System Settings? It's not there. Even searching shows no results.
What about typing into the command line:
system-config-printer
Assuming Fedora 38 still uses the same doo-hickey, that was the control panel that various Gnome, Mate and probably some other desktops, would call up from their menu.
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 12:20 PM Tim via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Alex:
Do you mean in the main System Settings? It's not there. Even searching shows no results.
What about typing into the command line:
system-config-printer
Assuming Fedora 38 still uses the same doo-hickey, that was the control panel that various Gnome, Mate and probably some other desktops, would call up from their menu.
That's what needed to be installed. I had forgotten the name of it, but I'm also surprised it wasn't installed when I installed fedora38.
I also had to install "GNOME Desktop Environment" after the install because whichever option was chosen by default did not include that, ugh.
I believe I'm now using Cinnamon on GNOME.
Thanks, Alex