On 10/25/06, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:19 -0400, Rob wrote: > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 13:07, Paul Davis wrote: > > out of interest, how do you print a document without a command > > line > > "File/Print" and then click OK. Works in kwrite, gedit, > Openoffice, pretty much any document-producing app worth > installing. no, no. i am talking about being in a file browser, not in a document editor. lets say i find foo.txt or bar.png or baz.pdf and i want to print it. what do i do? because in a command line environment i don't have to start up an editor, i just type "lpr foo.txt". it seems to me that this *must* be possible from the GUI equivalent, but in GNOME at least i cannot find it.
Do you mean something like the Windows 'Run' command? I don't think Gnome has that, or I've never seen it. Of course Gnome does have a terminal to instead of running the command it's open the terminal and run the command. Not a big deal really. I'm sure there is a finer point here? - Mark
