Printers

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Manage Jobs and Printers

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printers@linux-man

Cinnamon applet - Manage Jobs and Printers

Czech translation by Radek71(https://github.com/Radek71), tweaked by p-bo(https://github.com/p-bo)

German translation by NikoKrause(https://github.com/NikoKrause)

Russian translation by Andreevlex(https://github.com/Andreevlex)

Swedish translation by eson57

Chinese translation by giwhub

Croatian translation by muzena

French corrections by Christophe Hortemel

Danish translation by Alan01

Changelog

2.1

Warning to install cups-bsd if necessary.

2.0

JS update, drop lang and mainloop libs, implement async/await and subprocess.

1.0

Implement Scrollbars on cancel jobs list
Wait for update to finish to display the menu

0.9.1

Use pkexec to "Restart CUPS"

0.9

Configuration: "Reload Applet" and "Restart CUPS" buttons

0.8

Applet also updates when closing menu

0.7

Applet only updates when receives a Cups signal - faster Menu toggle
3s timeout between updates
More error conditions
Code cleanup

0.6

Get rid of the loop - applet updates when clicked or receive a Cups signal

0.5

Compatibility with Cinnamon 3.2
Vertical panels (setAllowedLayout)
Allow multiple instances

0.4

Using async calls (spawn_async)

0.3

Correctly show unicode chars

0.2

Minor changes

0.1

Initial release

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9 Comments

Caldas Lopes
Caldas Lopes-2 weeks ago
Not quite... printers@cinnamon.org is a nice fork of printers@linux-man. It's the "official" applet managed by the cinnamon team, but its behavior and properties are a little different.
ii0-0ii
ii0-0ii-6 months ago
LM22.2 built in already just need to activate or deactivate applet
kuehhe1
kuehhe1-1 year ago
Hello, my Canon MG4250 is only recognized as a USB printer. I set it up on WLan and from CUPS at: http://localhost:631/printers/ two variants are listed as network printers. However, the WLan network printers are not displayed in the applet. System is LinuxMint 22 Cinnamon
Footbath667
Footbath667-5 years ago
Is there a way to get the Printers applet to display the ink levels (Printers->Properties->Ink/Toner Levels) from my HP printer? Perhaps there is a package that will do this that I don't have installed? The HP applet that (I guess) comes with hplip will show ink levels, but doesn't always display in the panel correctly.
Caldas Lopes
Caldas Lopes-8 years ago
Sometimes Printers stop responding. It seems it lost connection with CUPS server or part of CUPS just died. Looks like a system issue because there are no printing notifications. Console "sudo systemctl restart cups.service" is the fastest way to make it work again.
Jhon Monrroy
Jhon Monrroy-8 years ago
This great applet is not working in LM 18.3 with cinnamon 3.6 :-(
Caldas Lopes
Caldas Lopes-8 years ago
You're welcome, but no changes were made! I was just thinking about installing 3.4 to test compatibility. It seems I don't need to.
dodona2
dodona2-8 years ago
works on cinnamon 3.4 -THANKS!
dodona2
dodona2-8 years ago
unfortunately not yet compatible with cinnamon 3.4