On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 22:17 +0200, Till Maas wrote: >> On Thu October 9 2008, Paul Howarth wrote: >> > CUPS can autodetect network printers, which desktop users would no doubt >> > find useful, even though there may be no local printing hardware. >> >> Cups printer autodetection seems to work fast enough, that it could be enabled >> on demand, e.g. when kprinter is opened. I have cups always deactivated and >> when I need to print something, I start it and the kprinter instance I start >> directly after this, shows the network printers, that are found via cups >> browsing. But I guess there is no infrastructure there yet, to get cups >> started on demand. > > There's some support in cups for it, but it's all tied to launchd for > OS/X. It would definitely be nice to have someone work on making this > work for other environments Since cups already has a dbus interface, wouldn't it work to do this: cat > /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/com.redhat.PrinterSpooler.service << "EOF" Name=com.redhat.PrinterSpooler Exec=/usr/sbin/cupsd User=root EOF I haven't tested that, but I think it should work for dbus using cups clients. -- Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
