Hello,
the topic says it all. Unfortunately it is still not possible to rename printer with the KDE GUI (see bug here).

So how would I do this by hand?

Thanks.

I would try the cups web base interface, in browser address bar type: localhost:631 -> cups for administrators -> adding printers and classes -> manage printers -> etc ........

note: haven't tested this

Unfortunately not, there is a "Modify Printer" button, where you can really change almost everything, except for the name.

I think in cups speak the description is the printer name
.... -> modify printer -> continue -> change description -> continue -> modify printer -> will say modified successfully

google01103 wrote:I think in cups speak the description is the printer name
.... -> modify printer -> continue -> change description -> continue -> modify printer -> will say modified successfully

Did you test this?
I went through this dialog and couldn't see the printer name, but only the description.

what changed what was how the printer was listed in the Manage Print Jobs widget, I assumed this is what you wanted to change yes/no? I'll assume no and that I'm wrong (my bad)

you can supposedly do it manually by stopping the cups daemon, editing /etc/cusps/printers.conf and then renaming the appropriate .ppd file in /etc/cups/ppd/ found it here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=809577 Other option might be to delete and then recreate the printer

apologies

ok this worked

there is (in openSUSE) a gtk package called system-config-printer that when run as root allowed me to rename a printer, I had to restart KDE for it to display in the applet. The dependencies seems minor and it appears available for Chakra http://www.chakra-project.org/packages/ ... pkg.tar.xz

No, need to apologize, I'm glad you take care at all!

google01103 wrote:you can supposedly do it manually by stopping the cups daemon, editing /etc/cusps/printers.conf and then renaming the appropriate .ppd file in /etc/cups/ppd/ found it here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=809577 Other option might be to delete and then recreate the printer

The manual editing is to extensive and error prone too, I think I will go for delete and recreate here.

google01103 wrote:there is (in openSUSE) a gtk package called system-config-printer that when run as root allowed me to rename a printer, I had to restart KDE for it to display in the applet. The dependencies seems minor and it appears available for Chakra ...

hmm, just checked I had this (system-config-printer) already installed. Does it look like this:?

I can't change the name here, even when running as root.
If its not this then I need instructions on how to run system-config-printer.

I would swear this worked yesterday but it's not working today so I'm not feeling too good about what I thought happened yesterday

starting to think you need to add a new printer with the name you want, which just seems wrong

this is what the app I have looks like:

From what I recall, the name (or identifier) given to a printer once created cannot be changed. It also cannot have spaces in it, as it is used in the IPP / HTTP URLs upon which CUPS is based. You'll need to recreate the printer, and delete the old one afterwards.

I would not recommend changing the configuration file by hand.

Yeah, its ok. I already deleted and recreated the printers in question.