Great! I thought of that basic idea, but did not know there was any way to do it. Thanks.
-Denis On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com > wrote: > Speaking of doing things automagically on a file event. > > One could put the files to the same directory every time, and setup a > trigger on the directory change event. There would be no real delay that > way and as soon as a file shows up, it could be sent to a printer. > > If you are interested in that, search for: monitoring files directories by > incron. > > Tomas > > On Nov 10, 2017 10:26 PM, "Russell Senior" <russ...@personaltelco.net> > wrote: > > > Rather than clicking on it, you could set up a cronjob (or similar) > > that sends everything it finds in the particular directory you "print" > > it to, and automatically sends it to the printer and then deletes it. > > That would make it kind of automatic, if adding a little latency. > > > > > > Russell > > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Denis Heidtmann > > <denis.heidtm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Figured it out. I needed to add %U to the exec line in the .desktop > > file. > > > > > > Where is there a list of the various command line options (such as this > > %U)? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > -Denis > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Denis Heidtmann < > > denis.heidtm...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> I would like to be able to double-click on a .PLT file to have lpr > > launch > > >> with the file as the argument. > > >> > > >> I have created a *.desktop file, made it executable, and placed it in > > >> ~/.local/share/applications. It shows up in Dash. But it does not > > show as > > >> an application that I can associate with a file. > > >> > > >> Am I going in the right direction? > > >> > > >> Thanks, > > >> -Denis > > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
