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Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 55

Printing freezes KDE apps

Trying to access the print dialog, either using ctrl-p or through the menu, freezes KDE applications. I've tried Okular, Gwenview, Kmail, and they all exhibit the same issue. Has anybody run into the same problem?

I'm using KDEmod 4.2.3, but I was also having the same issue before, and I tried pacman  -Syu to see if updates would resolve the problem. I didn't really check if my KDEmod version was upgraded, but like I said, the problem occurred before my last -Syu.

As you can imagine, this is pretty frustrating...I've been tempted to switch out of Okular for now, just until I can print from it again. But I view pdfs more than I print them out, so I can't (yet) justify putting Okular down for a while since it's so solid as a viewer. KDE4 printing, in general, has been seriously hobbled and torturous to work with. I hear a lot of the fault goes to Qt, but that's really not a great excuse when trying to produce a viable desktop for power-users. At least get me something I can access CUPS settings with, so I don't have to kick up the clunky web interface everytime I want to change a setting...

jerik

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Registered: 2009-03-02

Posts: 197

Re: Printing freezes KDE apps

Yes, I have the very same problem. Had it for months now - going C R A Z Y ! ! !

broch

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From: L.A. California

Registered: 2006-11-13

Posts: 975

Re: Printing freezes KDE apps

I have two printers:
1) Phaser 6250 (networked postscript)
2) HP Deskjet 6840 (wireless)

installed KDEmod 4.2.4 (i686)

no problem with printing from kde apps (okular and kate)

so it is possible that there is a bug, but another option is that you have some problems with cups configuration?

it is difficult to say what is going on as you have not provided any more information except "printing is freezing KDE apps"

Last edited by broch (2009-06-09 17:32:30)

darzephyr

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2006-08-02

Posts: 43

Re: Printing freezes KDE apps

Are your printers on a network ? I wonder if https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179955 could be related

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Darío Andrés
KDE BugSquad Team and Developer