NAME

ppr-panel - open PPR's Perl-Tk control panel


SYNOPSIS

ppr-panel [-d destname] [filename] ... ]


DESCRIPTION

This command launches a GUI interface for PPR. It is written in Perl with the Tk widget set. It has some overlap in function with the web-browser-based GUI. Both can display queues, manage jobs, display printer status, and control printers. However the web interface has management functions which the Tk GUI does not and the Tk GUI has a print dialog which the web interface does not.

Control Panel

If no arguments are supplied, then the PPR control panel will be opened.

Queue Display

To skip the PPR control panel and open a queue display window, use -d destname. For example:

        $ ppr-web -d myprn

Job Submission

If non-option command line parameters are present, they are understood to be the names of files to be printed on the indicated printer. A print dialog will be opened. This dialog will allow the user to select a different printer, select printer options, and select options provided by PPR such as multiple copies. If the -d option is used, then the indicated queue will be selected (though the user can still use the drop-down list to select a different one).

Desktop Icons

If you are running a GUI such as KDE which provides desktop icons, this command can be used as the the action command for an icon.

If the icon is configured to run ppr-panel without arguments, then if you double click on the icon the control panel will open and if you drop files on the icon a print dialog will open.

If the icon is configured to run ppr-panel with the arguments -d queuename, then double clicking on the icon will open the queue display window and dropping files on the icon will open a print dialog with the indicated queue already selected.


SEE ALSO

``PPR, a PostScript Print Spooler''


HISTORY

PPR was written at Trinity College during 1993--2003.


AUTHOR

David Chappell, Trinity College Computing Center, Hartford, Connecticut.