GtkLP is an graphical frontend for CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System.
It is used to have an easy (and graphical) access to all of the many options
of cups-managed printers.
OPTIONS
The following options are recognized by gtklp:
-P printer
Use printer as default destination.
-d printer
This option is equivalent to "-P".
-c configdir
Use configdir to set an alternative path to the configfiles for GtkLP.
-S server
The name of the CUPS-Server.
-h server
The same as -S.
-p port
The port of CUPS-Server, 631 per default.
-l
Only list the chosen options as a list of commandline-parameters for lpr.
Nice for scripting purposes...
-D
Debug.
-V
Displays the version of GtkLP.
-b
Use builtin defaults instead of saved options
-i
Ignore data on stdin.
Sometimes useful, e.g. for printing from some versions of the Acrobat Reader.
-U user
The name of the cups-User to use.
-# n
Make n copies per default.
-n n
The same as -#.
-H
Help
-C
Force console-mode
-o option=value
Specify extra options, same syntax as lpr
-E
Forces encryption when connecting to the server.
-q priority
Specify the priority of the print job, from 1 (lowest) to 100 (highest)
-t jobname
Specify the jobname
-J jobname
The same as -t.
If called as lp, the following options differ from GtkLP`s options:
-X
Force X-Mode, even if GTKLP_FORCEX is not set to 1
.TP5
-P page-list
Specifies which pages to print in the document. The
list can contain a list of numbers and ranges (#-#)
separated by commas (e.g. 1,3-5,16).
-H handling
Specifies when the job should be printed. A value of
immediate will print the file immediately, a value of
hold will hold the job indefinitely, and a time value
(HH:MM) will hold the job until the specified time.
(does this option work ?)
If called as lpr, the following options differ from GtkLP`s options:
-X
Force X-Mode, even if GTKLP_FORCEX is not set to 1
.TP5
-C jobname
Specify the jobname
.TP5
-T jobname
The same as -C.
.TP5
-p
Specifies that the print file should be formatted
with a shaded header with the date, time, job name,
and page number. This option is equivalent to
"-oprettyprint" and is only useful when printing text
files.
.TP5
-l
Specifies that the print file is already formatted
for the destination and should be sent without
filtering. This option is equivalent to "-oraw".
GtkLP looks for config-files under
<configdir>
then under
$HOME/.gtklp/
and at last under
/etc/gtklp/.
To hide Printers from users, use the following pathes:
/etc/gtklp/accept/ /etc/gtklp/deny/ $HOME/.gtklp/
Just put an empty file with the name of the printer the user
should see by default to accept,
put an empty file with the name of the printer the user
should never see to deny.
The accept values can be overwritten by the user, the
deny values can't.
SPECIAL
In GtkLP you can define a browser to open the help URL, the CUPS-Homepage and so on.
Just use the your favorite HTML browser. The first $1 in command-line will be substituted
by the URL.
If you can't connect to an X-Server, GtkLP acts as console-lpr.
If called as lpr, or lp, GtkLP acts on console and has some other command-line parameters, see above.
VARIABLES
You can set the following environment variables to influence the behaviour of GtkLP:
CUPS_SERVER
The default CUPS-server to connect to
IPP_PORT
The default Port of the CUPS-server to connect to
PRINTER
The default printer to use
GTKLP_FORCEX
Set to 1 to force X-Mode for lpr and lp
ERROR
GtkLP produces the following Error-Codes:
0
normal program termination
1
small error, wrong parameters, etc.
2
Server Problems, server not found, no default printer found, etc.
3
BAD error. Fields declared too short, too many printers, etc.
This program was written by T. Mueller, 2000, 2001, 2002.
It is licensed under the Terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE,
see also http://www.gnu.org.
