To invoke the kde print dialogue the command kdeprint used to work. I believe this was replaced with kdeprint4.
Installing and running form the command line on Leap 42.1 it returns:
kprinter4(19734) main: “Wait for STDIN…”
What is the best way to invoke the kde print dialogue from the command line?
Are you referring to the KDE print control manager?
kcmshell5 kcm_print_manager
I am looking for a way to call the kde print dialogue from programmes that only provide a command line print option i.e the gEDA suite.
I used to use:
kprinter filename
there is a kprinter4 now available - https://www.credativ.de/blog/kprinter4-drucken-von-postscript-dokumenten-mit-kde-4
but it hangs with the message posted above. I am not using KDE4 but KDE5 and would like to find out if there is a native way to invoke the print dialogue.
Running kcmshell5 kcm_print_manager returns the following:
Could not find module ‘kcm_print_manager’. See kcmshell5 --list for the full list of modules.
running kcmshell --list shows kcm_print_manager
kcm_printer_manager - Configure your printers
So I don’t know what kcmshell5 kcm_print_manager actually does.
I downloaded the code and recompiled kprinter4 and now it works 
Running kcmshell5 kcm_print_manager returns the following:
Could not find module ‘kcm_print_manager’. See kcmshell5 --list for the full list of modules.
running kcmshell --list shows kcm_print_manager
kcm_printer_manager - Configure your printers
So I don’t know what kcmshell5 kcm_print_manager actually does.
It should have been
ksmshell5 kcm_printer_manager
If you’d run ‘kcmshell5 --list’ it would have been listed as one of the available modules.
Good for you 