Unable to set default printer
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@Jbob I know you’re busy this week and @joshuaparker is aware too.
Here’s some of my findings:
Default Printer’s do not work right now. Neither (it appears) does removing printers.
Removing will, or so it seems, remove the icon, but the printer still exists under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER->Printers->Connections
(Maybe if you remove manually the definitions don’t go away until you log off/ log back on – didn’t get to test that aspect)
I can’t tell what printer it decides to initially set as default, and in some cases the default might accidentally be set correctly. I don’t know if this is specific to network printers, or all printers, either. I was only able to test with network printers.
Updating the default printer, though, doesn’t have any affect on the host. It will cycle the printers assigned and if they exist, will just say “already exists”, but it never shows anything about specifying if it should change/update/unset default printers (Or maybe that just isn’t logged?)Of note, 7470 was the version in question, and he’s currently using the 0.10.6-RC file you provided earlier. These findings are with that Client and version of the OS.
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Good news, I’m an idiot and didn’t remember default printers are a user based thing. Because of this, the foguserservice wasn’t running which is why the printer (on 0.10.6) was not set.
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Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)
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More good news, the printers currently are only removed from connection list (when using network printers) after the user logs off and back on.
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@joshuaparker Can you confirm if printers are now working after the client is rebooted?
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0.10.6 released, it should fix this issue.
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@joshuaparker Did you get to test the new client version yet? I’d love to see this confirmed fixed!
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@Sebastian-Roth Sorry for the delay I have been out of the office lately. I installed the latest client and correct printers and default were set. Thanks devs for all your work on this great project.
