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MAN Solaris - gnome-printinfo (1)

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gnome-printinfo - GNOME print manager

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gnome-printinfo [--default] [--edit] [--printer=printer] [--open=printer] [--edit-path=default-source-file] [gnome-std-options]

The GNOME Print Manager application enables you to control and manage printers and print jobs. You can use GNOME Print Manager to perform the following tasks:

o Detect existing printers

o Choose which printer to use for different documents

o View a list of the print jobs that are queued on each printer

o Cancel print jobs that are queued

The following options are supported:

-d, --default Shows the printer queue for the default printer only.

-e, --edit Allows the superuser to edit the default label, icon and   description of printers, for the current LANG setting.

--edit-path=default-source-file Allows the superuser to edit the printer default settings for the GConf source specified.

-o, --open=printer Opens the printer queue window for the specified printer.

-p, --printer=printer Shows the printer queue window for the specified printeronly.

gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5).

Example 1: Launching GNOME Print Manager to show the default printer only:

example% gnome-printinfo -d

Example 2: Launching GNOME Print Manager to show printer "prn004001":

example% gnome-printinfo -p prn004001

See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables:

REQ_DIR Used to store print requests. If not set, defaults to /var/spool/lp/requests/%s/

TMP_DIR Used to store local print jobs. If not set, defaults to /var/spool/lp/tmp

LANG Current language setting.

DEF_PRN Current default printer.

PRINTER Current printer.

LPDEST Destination printer for lp.

The following exit values are returned:

0 Application exited successfully

>0 Application exited with failure

The following files are used by this application:

/usr/bin/gnome-printinfo Executable for GNOME print manager

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWgnome-print
Interface stability	Volatile

GNOME Print Manager Manual

Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

lp(1), lp(7D), cancel(1), enable(1), lpq(1B), lpr(1B), lprm(1B), lpstat(1), postprint(1), pr(1), stty(1), accept(1M), lpadmin(1M), lpfilter(1M), lpforms(1M), lpmove(1M), lpsched(1M), lpshut(1M), lpsystem(1M), lpusers(1M), printers(4), printers.conf(4), attributes(5), environ(5), gnome-std-options(5)

Written by Matt Keenan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2006.

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