Re: Setting a personal default printer (without admin privileges) in GNOME

     
 

 Why not create a small python app which user invoked to set the printer of choice? Then no need to understand command line parameters?
 

 
 

 
 
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> On Sep 12, 2019 at 05:25,  <Andreas Heinlein (mailto:[email protected])>  wrote:
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>  Hello, 
>
> I am looking for information on setting a personal (i.e. not 
> system-wide) default printer in GNOME. This is for a corporate 
> environment with many printers and users which usually do not have 
> administrative privileges. 
>
> On the command line, it is possible to set a default printer on a 
> per-user basis using 'lpoptions -d  <Queue_Name>'. This will save the 
> default printer queue name to a file ~/.cups/lpoptions. 
>
> I cannot find a way to set this using a GUI in GNOME. It used to be 
> possible with system-config-printer, where you could choose to set a 
> default printer only for you or system-wide, and only the latter 
> required admin privileges. 
>
> In GNOME, it seems that admin privileges are always required, as it is 
> not possible to select "Set as default" without unlocking the printers 
> panel. The GNOME user guide also mentions that "You need administrative 
> privileges on the system to set the default printer." 
> (https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/printing-setup-default-printer.html.en). 
>
> If that is really the case, how is one supposed to choose a default 
> printer in a corporate network using GNOME? 
>
> Thanks, 
>
> Andreas 
>
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