On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 09:41 -0500, Gabriel M. Elder wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 09:14 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 09:23 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 07:43 +0100, James Wilkinson 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). > > > > > > You should see a little printer icon in your systray, and clicking on > > > that will give you a print queue manager. > > > > > > Tim. > > > */ > > I don't know where my systray is and I have never seen a printer icon > > anywhere on my screen. Where is this? > > -- > > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Specifically, the systray referred to here is the "notification area" > panel applet, which is present by default on fedora's gnome desktop's > top panel. If the notification area isn't on your panel, it can be added > by right-clicking on the panel, select "Add to panel..." and then select > it from the list. I'm not sure offhand which program is actually > responsible for putting this icon in the notification area, but it is > enabled by default. > > The little printer icon shows up for me when i print from my fedora 6 > desktop. On my fedora 5 desktop, there may be a bug, since the little > printer icon doesn't always show up. But i'm not going to sweat it, > since i've basically completed my transition to fedora 6, and version 7 > is going to be released soon anyway. > > - gabriel > By George you are right. I have noticed the print icon before because it is more or less invisible when no printing is going on. Shades of Windows. What a shock. -- ======================================================================= It takes all kinds to fill the freeways. -- Crazy Charlie ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
