Re: [school-discuss] Project developing free school server solution

[Leon Brooks <leon@brooks.fdns.net>]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:41, Bjoern Scheuermann wrote:
> Am Samstag, 18. Oktober 2003 22:32 schrieb Mark Evans:
>> A simple solution would be a wrapper for lpr which directs print
>> jobs according to the DISPLAY environment variable.

> Sorry, it's not that easy. :-(

> KDE applications in a CUPS environment (just as an example) don't use
> lpr at all.

You'd probably have to twitch KDE's config in one of the startup 
scripts. Generally, for thin clients, I'll use something like IceWM or 
FVWM so KDE's printer management isn't as likely to become an issue.

Cheers; Leon