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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

ospm-pm

ospm-pm(1)							   User Commands							ospm-pm(1)

NAME

       ospm-pm - OpenSolaris Print Manager

SYNOPSIS

       ospm-pm [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       The  OpenSolaris Print Manager application enables you to control and manage print queues and print jobs. Currently, it supports on Solaris
       LP print system. You can use OpenSolaris Print Manager to perform the following tasks:

       o  Create printer groups from a static list or based on some attributes of the printers

       o  View print jobs on each printer, and remove print jobs that are queued

       o  Add new printer queues manually

       o  Integrate Print queues which were Auto-detected or auto-discovered into its GUI

       The tool can be invoked from the command line, but it is typically invoked from the desktop menu.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       gnome-std-options	       Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more  infor-
				       mation.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching OpenSolaris Print Manager.

       example% ospm-pm

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/ospm-pm

	   The executable file for OpenSolaris Print Manager application.

       $HOME/.ospm-printer-groups.xml

	   Configuration file for printer groups.

       $HOME/.printers

	   It supports printer(4) when user saves queues into the Favourites printer group.

ATTRIBUTES

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWprint-monitor 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gconf-editor(1), gconftool-2(1), ospm-preferences(1), libgconf-2(3), printer(4), gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       Written by Evan Yan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    07 Aug 2008 							ospm-pm(1)

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