If you use cups, then one of the tasks you will want, at some point, is "Job cancellation"
When this task is first required, I find myself immediately leaping to the following questions:
What port is the cups 'admin interface' running on so I can open the admin web page in a browser?
...and...
Do I enter admin / root where the authentication prompt asks for "User Name"?
...and...
Where in /etc/ can I find the password for the admin / root user?
...and lastly I am probably about to head out to websearch for 'cups admin default password'
Turns out I am asking all the wrong questions and wasting my time.
How to do Job cancellation in cups:
( should not require a 'sign-in' - the key is group membership )
On a multi-user system, not all users will necessarily have access to a printer.
( It could be that your "Industrial Colour Laser 9000" is not something you want every team in the office to be able to access )
If your OS of choice has a 'server distribution' and 'desktop distribution' (Ubuntu perhaps or the Red Hat / Fedora combination), then some might feel it is appropriate for the 'desktop' version to have automatic membership of lpadmin.
Once your username is a member of lpadmin, then you can proceed to this screen:
Which will list the queued jobs and offer you the option to 'Cancel' for each job in the queue*.
( Url is http://localhost:631/jobs/ which you can bookmark in your browser )
*Note: you might have to log out & log back in again, in order for the new group membership to take effect, then afterwards access http://localhost:631/jobs/
GNU / Linux has several options for backend printing systems, as I hinted earlier.
If you prefer a different printing backend, then, for Xfce, the settings here:
...and here ...
...will help you switch to an alternative.
Notes and Further reading:
Cups is not universally liked, and different GNU / Linux distributions use more or less of it to their taste.
Quoting from a Red Hat printing tutorial, two advantage of cups are:
- Available on all versions of Unix.
- Can be accessed from a terminal using a text based web browser (such as links).
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