No administration menu

wallaceowen · Post by **wallaceowen** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:19 pm

I've installed LM 12, and in the 'classic gnome no fancy stuff' window manager, the Administration submenu does not appear.

I'm trying to install a printer, and can't find any of the usual administrative tools.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

// Wally

wallaceowen · Post by **wallaceowen** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:15 pm

I've got Mint 12, and using gnome classic, I get no Administration or System menu.
How do I (for exaqmple) add a printer?

DrHu · Post by **DrHu** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:43 pm

I don't know, however a standard way of installing a printer is via CUPS own browser admin menu..

localhost:631
127.0.0.1:631

port 631 is the CUPS admin entry port to get their web/browser based setup

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/htm ... gllhj.html
--you can see what the web page looks like, and the other information priovided may also be of some help to you, when setting up your printer..

As long as you have CUPS running, and installed correctly, that would be all you need to get a printer working
--and presuming that your printer is supported in Linux via CUPS or some other method, such as HP, which proivide their own hplips control system for their brand of printers..

grizzler · Post by **grizzler** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:48 pm

When I switched to Gnome Classic (Fallback Mode) I put the 'Main Menu' on the panel (1) and found Administration and Preferences menus as submenus of the System Tools menu (not sure about the exact wording - I don't use the English language version) in the main menu. There is also a System Settings entry, both beneath the username in the main menu and in the menu under the username on the panel. System Settings has a Printers item.

(1) I just put the Applications/Locations menu back on the panel to check, and the submenus of System Tools are there as well.

TBABill · Post by **TBABill** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:05 pm

Working from memory, not an installed system, but can't you click your username in the upper right and select system settings or preferences?

TBABill · Post by **TBABill** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:09 pm

Dual post?? I responded to your other thread.

zerozero · Post by **zerozero** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:29 pm

[topics merged- please don't double post, won't get you faster answers (can actually be contra-productive) and loads the board with unnecessary noise]

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