On 10/16/2017 08:49 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I had trouble connecting from xsane to a Fujitsu IX-500 > scanner on my wife's SL7.2 office desktop. At Sunday's > clinic (thanks folks!), she learned to install xsane on > two laptops (one SL7.3, one Mint 18.2), and xsane worked > fine with the scanner on both laptops. > > After looking for differences, I de-installed xsane-gimp > on her desktop machine, and the scanner connected fine. > I'm not sure why xsane-gimp was installed, or why we > might want to scan directly into gimp someday, but for > now we do better without it. > > Keith >
IIRC, gimp used to have a sane plugin to scan directy into gimp. Now, on linux systems, you now just use xsane GUI (sane is the backend) as a Gimp plugin by setting a symlink, for example: ln -s /usr/bin/xsane ~/.gimp-2.8/plug-ins/ When you run Gimp, the File - Create menu should now have one or more entries for your scanner. If you change the scanner or other plugins, etc, you can rm ~/.gimp*/pluginrc and gimp will rescan for new plugins. -Ed _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
