I confirm this behavior on intrepid (Ubuntu 8.10). When I open the print... dialog in Evince Document Viewer, another printer than the default one is selected. I set the default printer using the Ubuntu menu System > Preferences > Default Printer. The default printer is correctly preselected in other applications such as Firefox, gedit, Thunderbird, OpenOffice...
Neither ~/.cups/lpoptions nor /etc/cups/lpoptions seem to work on my computer.
I confirm this behavior on intrepid (Ubuntu 8.10). When I open the print... dialog in Evince Document Viewer, another printer than the default one is selected. I set the default printer using the Ubuntu menu System > Preferences > Default Printer. The default printer is correctly preselected in other applications such as Firefox, gedit, Thunderbird, OpenOffice...
Neither ~/.cups/lpoptions nor /etc/cups/lpoptions seem to work on my computer.