Managing print queues

James Wilkinson fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk
Mon Apr 2 07:15:05 UTC 2007


I wrote:
> For example, suppose you've sent something to print, realise the
> printer's out of paper, and decide you'll do without the print -- how do
> you cancel the job?
> 
> In a terminal, it's easy -- lpq shows you the outstanding jobs, and lprm
> deletes them. Assuming it's *your* job, you don't even need to be root.
> 
> But there doesn't seem to be an obvious GUI to handle that, apart from
> http://localhost:631 (the CUPS web interface).

Tim Waugh wrote:
> You should see a little printer icon in your systray, and clicking on
> that will give you a print queue manager.

... which only appears when there's something in the print-queue ...

No wonder I couldn't find it!

Thanks, everyone.

James.

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