replacement for Gnome Print Manager avail?

Peter Boy pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de
Tue Nov 16 08:02:39 UTC 2004


Am Dienstag, den 16.11.2004, 08:31 +0530 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
> > Gnome Print Manager was /usr/bin/tryprint.pl

> I think the replacement is called eggcups. you need to have dbus
> running for it to work.

Thanks for the info. you may be right. google found:

> Just to recap, the original purpose of eggcups was to sit around 
> and wait for a D-BUS broadcast from the local CUPS daemon that 
> said the printer queue had changed.  When you clicked on the icon, 
> you got a printer browser, and clicking on an individual printer 
> you could see all of the jobs on that printer.
(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-
July/msg00126.html)

Any idea how to bring that icon to show up? I couldn't find any howto
nor a man entry.


Thanks
Peter







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