[Solved] Lightweight print queue manager recommendations?

Question

My wife uses fluxbox and is very happy with it, but she is not really a command line user. However, once in a while she needs to look at her print queue and sometimes delete a print job. lpq and lprm are out of the question, although I suppose I could write a bash script for her to do that easily. Also, I don't want to confuse her with the cups interface as this requires root login to delete print jobs.
Anyone know of a small print queue GUI manager that is lightweight and does not require a load of KDE or Gnome libraries? I don't see one in the AUR that is not KDE based.
Last edited by lagagnon (2012-03-10 00:04:52)

Answer 1

lagagnon wrote:That requires root login and root password to delete stuff on the queue.
Are you sure? Looks like /etc/cups/cupsd.conf can be tweaked, e.g.:
<Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job>
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM susan
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default>
AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM susan
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
Where the user you want to allow is named, of course, susan.
This is in cups 1.4.8, anyway.