(stdin)

[Florian Diesch]

norman <norman at littletank.org> wrote:

> I have just finished copying and printing four pages of manuscript using
> XSane. During the process the printer icon appears in the top panel, as
> it should. When the printing is completed the icon is still in the
> panel, as it shouldn't. Right click on the icon followed by 'open' tells
> me that I have four items waiting to be printed, each one called
> (stdin). They are said to be 2.5MB in size and in the job-stopped state.
> Resume printing has no effect and the icon disappears only after
> deleting the four items.

This may be because the printing system is trying to get some status
information from the printer but can't for some reasons.
Check your printer confdiguration.  
/var/log/cups/error.log may contain additional informations (needs root
privileges to read)

> As far as I can find out (stdin) is said to be the place where a process
> usually takes its input, by default, the key board. Can anyone suggest
> why (stdin) appears as an item to be printed following the use of XSane?

That's nothing special. It's a common way of printing to pipe the data
into the lp or lpr command and xsane is just doing that.





   Florian
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