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Daniel Lange: Getting scanning to work with Gimp on Trixie

nospam@example.com (Daniel Lange) — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:16:27 +0000

Make sure the plugin is linked into the config dir as xsane, so $HOME/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/xsane/xsane.

The executable in /usr/local/bin/ can be named as you wish. I use xsane-1.0.0-fit-003 so I keep an eye on which version and which compile run it is.

I updated the instructions in the blog article to make this more clear.

hamradio: Getting scanning to work with Gimp on Trixie

nospam@example.com (hamradio) — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:47:21 +0000

Hi, I'm on Debian 13.5 Trixie with Gimp 3.0.4 and Xsane 0.999. I've installed your plugin following your directions, as you can see here:

$ .config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/xsane/xsane-1.0.0-fit-003 --version xsane-1.0.0-fit-003-1.0.0 (c) 1998-2022 Oliver Rauch E-mail: Oliver.Rauch@xsane.org package xsane-1.0.0-fit-003 compiled with GTK-3.24.49 with color management function with GIMP support, compiled with GIMP-3.0.4 XSane output formats: jpeg, pdf(compr.), png, pnm, ps(compr.), tiff, txt

However, after restarting Gimp, there's no Acquire → XSane menu under File → Create. Do you know why? Anyway, thanks for everything!!!

Marco: Linux kernel USB errors -71 and -110

nospam@example.com (Marco) — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:58:19 +0000

thank you

i had to move my keyboard to another port on the mobo and it worked

Daniel Lange: Getting scanning to work with Gimp on Trixie

nospam@example.com (Daniel Lange) — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:14:24 +0000

It (still) works with Gimp on Debian Trixie, that's what the title of the blog post implies. YMMV on other distros including Debian derivatives or Debian Testing. This is really compiled for Trixie and it has lots of run-time dependencies that need to match.

I added some debugging hint at the end of the blog post. Hope that helps.

Marc Shapiro: Getting scanning to work with Gimp on Trixie

nospam@example.com (Marc Shapiro) — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:37:33 +0000

Using Devuan, here (a Debian derivative) and it is not working. I do not get the menu option at all. This was also the case for gimp-xsanecli.

Daniel Lange: Getting scanning to work with Gimp on Trixie

nospam@example.com (Daniel Lange) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:58:12 +0000

Still works here, I just tried with gimp 3.0.4-3+deb13u8 (amd64)

Matteo Nastasi: Getting scanning to work with Gimp on Trixie

nospam@example.com (Matteo Nastasi) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:35:22 +0000

Hi Daniel, for my trixie with gimp 3.0.4-3+deb13u8 it doesn' t work. Did you already tryied it with success?

Daniel Lange: Polkitd (Policy Kit Daemon) in Trixie ... allowing remote users to suspend, reboot, power off the local system

nospam@example.com (Daniel Lange) — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:36:00 +0000

You can list inhibitors active on the system with systemd-inhibit --list . That may give you a hint why / when / if you need to add org.freedesktop.login1.power-off-ignore-inhibit to the polkit rule.

Zacharias Paul: Polkitd (Policy Kit Daemon) in Trixie ... allowing remote users to suspend, reboot, power off the local system

nospam@example.com (Zacharias Paul) — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:01:36 +0000

Just as an addendum for anyone trying out the solution above and polkit still refusing. After trial and error and searching for a solution that actually works, it seems that on newer versions we need to add even more variants to the polkit rule:

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
    if ((action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.power-off" ||
         action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.power-off-multiple-sessions" ||
         action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.power-off-ignore-inhibit") &&
        subject.user == "foo") {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
});

(ignore the mishandled double-quotes in the comment function)

Note the additonal org.freedesktop.login1.power-off-ignore-inhibit action - that seemed to do the trick.

TigerP: Resizing Xterm fonts with Ctrl+ and Ctrl+

nospam@example.com (TigerP) — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:54:06 +0000

You can also put this information in ~/.Xresources if you only want it for you own user.

Marius Gedminas: Resizing Xterm fonts with Ctrl+ and Ctrl+

nospam@example.com (Marius Gedminas) — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:35:32 +0000

IIRC you can xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources/x11-xterm-fontsize, and the setting should then be effective for any newly started xterm.

I don't remember if there's a way of asking already-running xterms to reload X resources.

(I quite like gsettings/dconf and the instant apply logic across all running apps.)

ychaouche: Resizing Xterm fonts with Ctrl+ and Ctrl+

nospam@example.com (ychaouche) — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:38:35 +0000

Are there still any active xterm users?

Tech Savy: Resizing Xterm fonts with Ctrl+ and Ctrl+

nospam@example.com (Tech Savy) — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:47:17 +0000

Thank you! o/

Daniel Lange: Getting scanning to work with Gimp on Trixie

nospam@example.com (Daniel Lange) — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:39:14 +0000

The "[u]nfortunately compiling this is a bit involved..." comment is meant as it reads. Either use the xsane-1.0.0-fit-003 I have provided or have some patience for Debian to pick up.

Bella: Getting scanning to work with Gimp on Trixie

nospam@example.com (Bella) — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:09:40 +0000

THX for the reply! You are right: xsane 12.2, as also v13 that is in testing right now indeed both bind to libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 and libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0. Can't imagine why such a regression was made. Since this is beyond my abilities: can you share how I can achieve the same result?