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by xrendan 397 days ago
I have some really old code that pretty much does this, I'll see if I can find it.
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Ugh, I don't have it. It was from before I used git.

Basically to do this you have a cups server that exposes itself as a network printer that prints to a specified PDF directory and then you have a program watching that directory for new files and if there's a new one it opens up whatever pdf viewer you want in full screen.

Setup a shared pdf printer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1310867/how-to-set-up-shared...