wmlpq

wmlpq is a Windowmaker dockapp which monitors up to 5 printqueues, allowing you to see when your print job has finally been printed. This is useful when you work in a networked environment with several printers available, which are not in the same room; or (in some cases) the same country, and is easier than typing "lpq" every 30 seconds.

Currently it requires that you are running a print server that can emulate either BSD lpd or SysV lpsched. Experimental support for cups and pdq is now included. Feedback is welcome . It will display 8 LEDs for each of up to 5 different printqueues; jobs are shown as green LEDs if owned by you, red if owned by somebody else, and they move to the left as they move up the queue.

That is, in the image above, there are 8 (or more) jobs on the queue labelled HP137, of which jobs 3,4,5 and 7 are owned by me. On DJ248 there are only 6; and I own number 3 and 4. On ROMA, there are only two jobs, neither of which are mine.

Downloads:

The current version (0.2) can be downloaded as source code: wmlpq-current.tar.gz.

If you want to compile it, you will also need a working set of X libraries, and Alfred Kojima's libdockapp (available from www.windowmaker.org).

It has been tested under Linux and OpenBSD, but should run happily under any Unixy OS.

Precompiled versions:

There is also a .deb: wmlpq_0.2_i386.deb

and an .rpm: wmlpq-0.2-2.i386.rpm.