Re: How do I rid myself of deleted printers?

[Carlos E.R.]

On 13/11/2020 20.49, T wrote:
> On 2020-11-13 05:16, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 13/11/2020 04.32, T wrote:
>>> On 2020-11-10 19:43, T wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Fedora 33, x64
>>>>
>>>> I rid myself of a bunch of unused printers
>>>> using cups and printer admin.
>>>>
>>>> "Most" of my programs have caught up.  But
>>>> some have not: Libre Office, Free Office, all
>>>> Wine programs.
>>>>
>>>> Any way to clean up the stragglers?
>>
>>> Huh.  I don't believe I stumped you guys.  There is
>>> a first time for everything ...
>>
>> I have the same printer for a decade at least, I don't remember when I
>> had to delete a printer :-p
>>
>> The command "lpstat -a" should list the available printers.
>>
>>
>
>
> Hi Carlos,
>
>
> $ lpstat -a
>
> B4350 accepting requests since Thu 29 Oct 2020 01:36:30 PM PDT
>
> Cups-PDF accepting requests since Tue 30 Apr 2019 04:05:39 PM PDT
>
> Virtual_PDF_Printer accepting requests since Tue 29 Sep 2020 03:13:17 AM
> PDT

Well, those are all your "official" printers.

>
>
> Same thing shows in Printer Admin and CUPS.
>
> Here is what LibreOffice-7.0.3-Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
> looks like
>     https://ibb.co/3R4BM5F
>
> Red arrows on the deleted printers
>
> :'(

Could they be what cups call "classes"? I have none, so I can't see.

Some LO versions ago, LO had a standalone printer config program. It is
gone. Was hidden under "/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/" or similar.


Try, on any of the lo programs File / Printer Settings.

They could also be coming from your desktop.

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Cheers, Carlos.