[cups] Why is my default printer wrong?

Todd And Margo Chester toddandmargo at gmail.com
Tue Oct 31 00:26:29 PDT 2023


> Hi All,
>
> Fedora 38
> cups-2.4.7-1.fc38.x86_64
>
> Why do all my programs default to "Cups-PDF" and not
> "HLL2300D".  All Wine and native Linux programs.
> And changing it in my programs does not stick.
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>
> /etc/cups/printers.conf
>
> <Printer Cups-PDF>
> ...
> </Printer>
>
> <DefaultPrinter HLL2300D>
> ,,,
> </DefaultPrinter>

Figured it out.  CUPS forgets to update /etc/cups/lpoptions
Changing B4350 to HLL2300D fixed the issue

vi /etc/cups/lpoptions
Default HLL2300D


I reported the bug over on Fedora's bugzilla:

CUPS fails to update the efault printer in /etc/cups/lpoptions (edit)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247186


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