HPLIP

Display printer icon

Asked by Aroxo

This is just so stupid, I can't believe I can't find the answer myself!

However, I installed HPLIB beautifully and everything is coming out of the printer fine. However, for some reason I hide the panel icon which appeared when I installed the printer (I'm running GNOME on a Fedora 7 installation). It was the little icon I could use to view the print jobs, etc.

Any ideas how I can get it display again?

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Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

HPLIP doesn't actually provide that functionality. The printer icon is provided in the notification area by the gnome applet "system-config-printer-applet".

In any case this isn't a stupid question by any means, it took me a little bit to find a possible answer as well!

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=591660

Hope this helps and thanks for your support of hplip!

Aaron

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Aroxo (matt-aroxo) said : 		#2

Thanks Aaron. I managed to get part of the way there.

On Fedora when you do the grep to get the process id something is returned, however whenever you try and kill it using the first word it returns saying Process does not exist. If you use the second word it'll kill something. However in the example given above I *think* he's actually trying to kill the grep command which he just ran, rather than an actual process.

What I have done is add a new item to the panel, I chose

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Aroxo (matt-aroxo) said : 		#3

Thanks Aaron. I managed to get part of the way there.

On Fedora when you do the grep to get the process id something is returned, however whenever you try and kill it using the first word it returns saying Process does not exist. If you use the second word it'll kill something. However in the example given above I *think* he's actually trying to kill the grep command which he just ran, rather than an actual process.

What I have done is add a new item to the panel, I chose "Custom application launcher" then selected the printer icon, named it Printer and typed the system-config-printer-applet.

Now I have an icon.

When I click it, it says "Printer low on ink", but I can't see a list of print jobs. :(

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Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

Sorry I wish I could help more. But when you do figure it out if you wouldn't mind posting an update, I'd like to know how you get it working for future reference.

Sorry!

Aaron

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Aroxo (matt-aroxo) said : 		#5

I will do Aaron, in the meantime I'll carry on trying to figure it out...

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Aroxo (matt-aroxo) said : 		#6

Got it!

Ok. It is slightly obtuse, but I have a solution.

1. Right click on your menu (i.e. on Applications) and select Edit Menus
2. Scroll down to Administration and then find "Manage print jobs" and check it
3. Now right click on a panel and choose Add to panel
4. Select "Application launcher"
5. Pull down "Administration"
6. Select "Manage print jobs" and click Add

Done!

Easy when you know how. ;)

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Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#7

I'm glad you got it. Thanks for the update!

Aaron