On Friday, 23 Mar 2001, Christoph =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hinterm=FCller?= wrote: > I do have a question about running or better lounching plugins: > > how can i get gimp to run some extra commands before and/or > after launching a plugin like xsane. > eg: a command which tries to activate scanner on scsi bus before > calling xsane > and > a command deactivating it again after xsane was closed again > But is schould not happen when gimps starts, as it is not > necessaryliy that > eg the scanner is turend on at that time. > And eg the scanner might be turned off again before gimp finishes :( I would rename xsane to xsane.real and replace it with a shell script wrapper which does something like: #!/bin/sh set -e /usr/local/lib/xsane/xsane-startup xsane.real "$@" /usr/local/lib/xsane/xsane-shutdown No gimp hackery required. The two scripts xsane-startup and xsane-shutdown can contain whatever commands are needed to initialise and turn off your scanner etc. Austin
