Where's the print que

[pursley1 at netscape.net]

pursley1 at netscape.net wrote:
>
>
> Mark Knoop wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 06:16 -0500, pursley1 at netscape.net wrote:
>>  
>>> Mark Knoop wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 05:29 -0500, pursley1 at netscape.net wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>> What makes this whole thing even worse, my system even has a 
>>>>> "system-config-printer-applet" file but when I run it, nothing 
>>>>> happens and I can't install it on either panel.  I even covered 
>>>>> the contingency of in case my user account needed to belong to the 
>>>>> "lp" group.  Any ideas why that part of my system is not available?
>>>>>             
>>>> You need to run it as:
>>>>
>>>> system-config-printer-applet --no-tray-icon
>>>>
>>>> By default, the tray icon will only show if there are print jobs in 
>>>> the
>>>> queue.
>>>>         
>>> 1) The tray icon *NEVER* appears when printing
>>> 2) I've tried to run the applet but nothing happens - I do mean 
>>> nothing.
>>>     
>>
>> 1. Please don't top-post.
>> 2. Open a terminal and run the following command:
>>
>> python /usr/share/system-config-printer/applet.py --no-tray-icon
>>
>> What happens?
>>   
> (As you wish - the top posting which I do by default)
>
> Nothing happens.  Oh, I can see the HD chew on it for a moment but 
> then I guess the moment is gone.  No errors, no output, no windows....
Well, you'll be happy but confused as I am but upon rebooting the 
system, all of the print que viewing links are now working although I 
didn't change anything on my system.  I've used, printed and rebooted 
the system about a 100 times and suddenly it's working....  "They're 
coming to take me away, ha, ha!"

Bradley