Further: Redid my whole cups setup. 1. Removed all the policy stuff from cupsd.conf. This allowed gnome-cups-manager to 'see' the ppd stuff.
2. stopped cupsys 3. deleted /etc/cups/printers.conf, /etc/printcap and, importantly, /var/cache/cups/remote.cache (this is key)/ 4. How everything works *until I change something using gnome-cups-manager*, which rewrites /var/cache/cups/remote.cache, may cause cups to crash, and, on restart I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] vice 'laser', and no default. -- setting a default printer does not work https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/38149 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs