I wrote: [suggestion of xsane-gimp RPM] > My gimp 1.3.3 installed from source doesn't see the xsane plugin, > though, so Tino's instructions are probably better if you're > installing gimp and xsane from source. ... Tino's instructions were: > Yes indeed, it is simple: Just do not create an xsane directory but link > the xsane binary directly into ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins . Then remove > ~/.gimp-1.2/pluginrc and restart gimp. I found that I had to link xsane-gimp, not just xsane, into the plug-ins directory for gimp-1.3. If I linked plain xsane, gimp complained: /home/akkana/.gimp-1.3/plug-ins/xsane: GIMP support missing But maybe that's just a question of how xsane is compiled. John, is it possible that you forgot to configure gimp support when you built xsane? I don't think it's on by default. ...Akkana
