Is there an alternative? Also running into "[Boomaga GUI] ERROR: Can't start boomaga gui."

[MrHappy]

Like the title says.
Is there an alternative?

I tried everything I could find on the internet, but the only thing that works is
lp <file>
from the commandline and
dbus-send --session --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.boomaga /boomaga org.boomaga.add string:'<full-path-to-pdf>' string:'title' boolean:false string:'options' uint32:1

That is not very desirable.

[GaryScottMartin]

The closest thing to an alternative I've found is PDF Arranger. It's not a print driver utility, but it does allow you to rearrange PDFs.

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I haven't found one, but I'm looking. I understand that it works for some people. I've seen a suggestion that the problem relates to an incompatibility with Wayland that is specific to systems with an NVIDIA GPU and using the proprietary NVIDIA driver. That is my case.

For some reason, boomaga-git (ArchLinux AUR package) worked properly for me until today. The first file I printed today worked fine, but when I tried to print a second file, I got the dbus error when it tried to start the gui. Even when I started the gui from the command line, I couldn't print to boomaga and I got occasional "qt.qpa.wayland: Wayland does not support QWindow::requestActivate()" messages on the console. This might be related to a recent update of the NVIDIA driver.

[GaryScottMartin]

Since I upgraded my NVIDIA driver to nvidia-open-dkms 580.119.02-1, I can print with boomaga if I start the GUI from the command line first. I still get the error message:

[Boomaga GUI] WARNING: Can\'t read DBUS session direcory /var/spool/cups/tmp/.dbus/session-bus

Even after a succesful print.

[MrHappy]

I have AMD, still does not work here.

[sokolgeo]

Here is what worked for me: #143