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<title>Printer Applet</title>
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<author><firstname>Jonathan</firstname> <surname>Riddell</surname> <email>jriddell@ubuntu.com</email></author>

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<date>2010-02-05</date>
<releaseinfo>&kde; 4.4</releaseinfo>

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<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>Printer</keyword>
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<para>Printer Applet is a system tray utility.  It shows current print jobs,
shows printer warnings and errors and shows when printers that have
been plugged in for the first time are being auto-configured by
hal-cups-utils.</para>

<para>It replaces kjobviewer from &kde; 3.</para>

<para>It is a &kde; port of system-config-printer's applet.py by Tim Waugh from Red Hat.</para>

<para>Printer Applet is displayed in the system tray when a print 
job is launched. Click on the printer icon in the system tray and you will 
see a dialog with running print jobs.</para>

<para>In this dialog you are able to manage your print jobs. 
Use the menu items to refresh the job list, show completed jobs 
and the printer status.</para>

<para>A &RMB; click on a job shows a context menu with options to cancel, hold, release 
and print a job.</para>

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No connection to the selected printer -> notification 

RMB in the systray: Quit - Hide? How to enable it again, if hidden?

How can I disable the printer-applet?

Create a file named "printer-applet.desktop" in ~/.config/autostart with the following content:
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[Desktop Entry]
Hidden=true
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