Those programs save their preferences in those files. You can erase them, and they will be recreated next time you start the program.
allan On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Thomas H. George <lists at tomgeorge.info> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 07:02:50AM +0200, stef wrote: >> Le jeudi 6 octobre 2011 23:32:02 Thomas H. George, vous avez ?crit : >> > In my home directory there is a subdirectory .sane containing two >> > further subdirectoris, xsane containing the file xsane.rc and xscanimage >> > containing the file xscanimage.rc. >> > >> > I did not create these files and find their contents odd. >> > >> > Can, should I delete them? ?If not, are there instructions for editing >> > them? >> > >> > Tom >> >> ? ? ? Hello, >> >> ? ? ? you'll find information about these files and directories in the man >> page >> of xsane and xscanimage. >> >> Regards, >> ? ? ? Stef >> > The man pages of xsane and xscanimages give no specific information > regarding the contents of xsane.rc and xscanimages.rc just the advice, > "The user should customize the program through the "Preferences" menu." > > The xscanimages preferences menu does not include an option to customize > the xscanimages.rc file. ?I can't check the preference memu for xsane > because the program terminates in a segfault. ?This segfault problem and > possible solutions has been discussed in the posting Permission Problem > with xsane to the debian-user list and the posting xsane permission > problem to the sane-devel list. > > Regards, > ? ? ? ?Tom > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
