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cups-pdf : wish it could open when done

Its been something I always wanted in cups-pdf; to see the PDF output from the printing. Just to make sure that the printer didn't run out of ink! After a bit of digging, I managed to get it working with inotify-tools. Here is what I had to do. sudo apt-get install inotify-tools inotify is one of the facilities in Linux that I adore. Very scalable; have used it extensively in production environment that fires a few thousand events per second (it is capable of doing a lot more). For our purpose, we need to setup an event monitor and make the event do something; which is in our case monitor for write+close event, and ask gnome (in my case) to open the file. The best we can do is to run a background script on gnome session startup . The script as below; make sure you set execute permission on the file. #!/bin/bash if [ "$1" != "-nohup-" ]; then     nohup $0 "-nohup-" </dev/null &>/dev/null &     exit 0; fi inotifyw