Rather than clicking on it, you could set up a cronjob (or similar) that sends everything it finds in the particular directory you "print" it to, and automatically sends it to the printer and then deletes it. That would make it kind of automatic, if adding a little latency.
Russell On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Figured it out. I needed to add %U to the exec line in the .desktop file. > > Where is there a list of the various command line options (such as this %U)? > > Thanks, > -Denis > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I would like to be able to double-click on a .PLT file to have lpr launch >> with the file as the argument. >> >> I have created a *.desktop file, made it executable, and placed it in >> ~/.local/share/applications. It shows up in Dash. But it does not show as >> an application that I can associate with a file. >> >> Am I going in the right direction? >> >> Thanks, >> -Denis >> > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
