[PLUG] xsane closes with errors

Donkyhotay donkyhotay at verizon.net
Sat Nov 28 03:34:23 UTC 2009


Heh, I actually did post on the arch linux forums first. Since no one 
there was able to give me a suggestion that worked I figured I'd try to 
pick some more brains.


Do not be afraid to joust a giant just because some people believe in 
windmills.


David Kaplan wrote:
> I would ask in the Arch forum. there is probably a gui program that needs to
> be installed, that would normally come with Ubuntu, but with Arch you always
> have to add the pieces separately.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Donkyhotay <donkyhotay at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, as I mentioned I can actually scan from the terminal just fine with
>> my user account. I have also tried logging in as root and running xsane
>> but there was no difference.
>>
>>
>> Do not be afraid to joust a giant just because some people believe in
>> windmills.
>>
>>
>> David Kaplan wrote:
>>> Did you add yourself to the scanner group?
>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Groups
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Donkyhotay <donkyhotay at verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>>>> I recently changed distro's from ubuntu to arch a few weeks ago. It's
>>>> worked pretty well for me except for one small problem I've been having
>>>> with xsane. Whenever I try to launch it says it's detecting my scanner,
>>>> then it just quits. Launching from CLI gives
>>>>
>>>> (xsane:3713): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with
>>>> non-zero page size is deprecated
>>>>
>>>> Following the instructions listed on the wiki
>>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_Scanner_Support I have been
>> able
>>>> to successfully scan using scanimage from the CLI so I know my scanner
>>>> works, has the correct permissions (I can scan without root) and all
>>>> around works so I think the problem is just with xsane or maybe GTK. The
>>>> version of sane and xsane I have installed are direct from pacman. I
>>>> have tried deleting my ~/.sane folder with no change. If I try to launch
>>>> xsane with the scanner off I get the message reporting "no devices
>>>> available". I have even tried launching xsane as root with no difference
>>>> except a message telling me I shouldn't run it as root. Any ideas on
>>>> whats causing this and how I should resolve it?
>>>>
>>>>
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