I need to change the error policy on a printer queue. I can’t seem to find a way to do that in the CUPS web interface. Is there a way?
The alternative, using “System Settings”->Hardware->Printers won’t work for me. It first asks for the root password, which I enter. Then I go to Configure->“Banners, Policies and Allowed Users” and select the error policy. When I click “Apply” I get another prompt for the root password, but the password dialogue box won’t take the focus, so I can’t enter it.
I’ve tried setting special window properties and disabling focus stealing prevention, etc. Although I can then get the dialogue to accept the focus, nothing happens when I type. So I’m stuck. I’ve tried from several accounts - all the same.
Final possibility?? Is there a config file somewhere I can edit?
Thanks for any help getting the error policy changed, but ideally I’d also like to fix the password focus problem as it’ll be getting in the way whenever I need to to printer things…
Yes, this is indeed possible.
Go to “http://localhost:631/”, click on “Printers”, click on your printer, and choose “Set Default Options” in the chooser that originally displays “Administration”.
When asked for username and password, enter “root” as username and the root password.
Then click on “Policies” there to change the error policy.
and it worked. So I set up a desktop icon for this. But when I used it a second time, the “Configure” button in the printer config dialogue didn’t do anything, although all the other buttons seemed to still work.
Playing around, it seems you can only get into the “Configure” part the first time. After that, you need to log out and back in before you can use it again. Any idea why that might be?