ppr-panel - open PPR's Perl-Tk control panel
ppr-panel [-d destname] [filename] ... ]
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.
If no arguments are supplied, then the PPR control panel will be opened.
To skip the PPR control panel and open a queue display window, use -d destname. For example:
$ ppr-web -d myprn
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.
This command is the action command of KDE icons which you can double click on to open a queue or drop files onto to print them.
``PPR, a PostScript Print Spooler''
PPR was written at Trinity College during 1993--2003.
David Chappell, Trinity College Computing Center, Hartford, Connecticut.