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 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?
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
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.
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
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
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