queequeg wrote:

> I've got my printer set up through directly through the cups interface
> (localhost:631) and have my printer successfully shared to the other
> machines on the network. When I try to add anything in the Kprinter
> applet, it corrupts my cupsd.conf file to the point that nothing works
> anymore and I have to reinstall through cups as stated above.

You mean "kjobviewer"? :-?

What kind of corruption are you experiencing in cups config file? That
should not happen at all, better fill a bugzilla for this.

> Is there another printer-monitoring application for KDE3 that I can use
> to monitor the print jobs, etc.?
> I'm tired of having to open a link to localhost:631 to check the status
> of jobs, and would prefer a system tray icon or app that is readily
> available without opening a browser.

Besides Cups web interface, command line tools and desktop printer manager I
don't know any other program to get this... maybe HP Toolbox (hp-lip), but
only works with HP printers.

Greetings,

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Camaleón