On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 10:15:33AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Probably the only people running Linux systems without cups are the > > DIY distro groups (Arch, gentoo etc.) as I don't think this would have > > been caught in the bigger distros where if I'm not mistaken cups is > > installed by default.... > > I think you are spot on. Correct me if I'm wrong, but print-to-file > is available without having cups running, right? (I'm nowhere near > any of my Linux machines at the moment so I can't test it for myself.) Yes, I often use print to file (mainly with firefox), and it does not require the cups daemon to be running. Also, I am experiencing chromium hanging when trying to print on a non-DE environment.
