Monday, March 9, 2020

Testing out Ubuntu 20.04 LTS daily build (4 March 2020) Lenovo X1 Carbon 2 gen

I downloaded the latest daily build of Ubuntu 20.04 last week and installed it on a lenovo x1 carbon laptop (4-5 years old). From this URL:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/pending/
I d/l the March 4, 2020 version; today's version is March 9th;

It seemed to install ok; just a normal install; didn't see any issues with the install.

One thing was about the printer auto-discovery that seems to happen each time I login/boot up and login. This is less than useful (at least I haven't figured out how to select the printer I need to print to and get it actually working).

However, I did a google search and looked at the two most prevalent solutions. After trying one of them, ubuntu 18.04 – disable network printer auto discovery
https://cirovladimir.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/ubuntu-18-04-disable-network-printer-auto-discovery/

FIRST:
edit /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf and add/modify:
BrowseProtocols none
THEN:
$ sudo service cups-browsed restart
$ sudo service cups restart

NOTE: this did not prevent printer auto-discovery from happening on login; but I figured out to just put the "system-config-printer.desktop" icon on my desktop and open up the normal (normal for me thru past experience) printer window. Found in the /usr/share/applications folder; right-click the icon, copy to the desktop, then right-click the icon on the desktop, and select "allow launching" and now I can start the printer app I'm used to seeing and using productively. Just ignore the "Settings/Printers" section;

After following these steps I don't get the pop-up messages saying found this and that printer when logging in; however, in settings/printers, even if I delete all the printers displayed in this app, they will come back so I don't need to delete them; just ignore this setting.

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