On Mon 27 Jul 2020 at 17:34:52 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Brian (12020-07-27): > > Scanning with xsane or simple-scan only works by specifying a URI? You > > don't think this is an issue, in spite of its not being the experience > > of most users? > > Well, I am pretty sure I know my situation better than you.
>From xsane(1) xsane accesses image acquisition devices through the SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) interface. The list of available devices depends on installed hardware and configuration. When invoked without an explicit devicename argument, xsane presents a dialog listing all known and available devices. To access an available device that is not known to the system, the devicename must be specified explicitly. The format of devicename is backend‐name:devicefile (eg: umax:/dev/sga). All my networked scanners show in xsane. I wonder why yours are unknown to the system? You are in the best situation to know. > But if you insist to know: hpaio detects networked scanners by querying > CUPS for networked printers. But I do not want CUPS running. This is not > a bug, just a completely idiotic design. It's good to have technical reasons for network scanner discovery, even when they do not match reality. -- Brian.
