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jfabernathy

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2019-01-03

Posts: 123

[SOLVED] Arch with Plasma DE - no printer in settings or icon in tray

I installed via archinstall script. Key choices were Desktop KDE, Network Manger, and Grub

I later installed cups and my printer drivers using either PPD file from manufacturer or AUR driver.  Both network printers were installed and configured using the localhost:631 page of CUPS.  Both printers are working.

What is missing is the printer icon in the system tray/panel of KDE and in the Settings for KDE, there is no Printer category.

Is there a way to add these?

Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.84.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.13.10-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
Memory: 15.0 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics

Last edited by jfabernathy (2021-08-20 21:16:20)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,334

Re: [SOLVED] Arch with Plasma DE - no printer in settings or icon in tray

You'll want to install the print-manager package.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Printing

Last edited by V1del (2021-08-14 18:15:05)

jfabernathy

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2019-01-03

Posts: 123

Re: [SOLVED] Arch with Plasma DE - no printer in settings or icon in tray

Thanks again.  installing packages print-manager and system-config-printer and a reboot has solved this issue.