I use Skanlite and it identifies 3 different devices as scanners. One of them is a Brother MFC printer, connected by WIFI, which I would like to set as the default scanner. How can I set it as default? Should I use a different scanning software?
I tried simple-scan, installed from the repo, and it is an improvement, because it automatically selects the Brother printer from the list. But it still goes through the unnecessary and time-consuming process of searching for all possible scanners.
Did you even look at the manual page for simple-scan?
What about (and the following is from a web search):
simple-scan -?
or
simple-scan --help-all
I don’t see what I am looking for in there:
simple-scan -?
Usage:
simple-scan [OPTION…] [DEVICE…] — Scanning utility
Help Options:
-h, --help Show help options
--help-all Show all help options
--help-gtk Show GTK+ Options
Application Options:
-v, --version Show release version
-d, --debug Print debugging messages
--fix-pdf=FILENAME… Fix PDF files generated with older versions of this app
--display=DISPLAY X display to use
shmuel@shmuel-Manjaro:~$ simple-scan --help-all
Usage:
simple-scan [OPTION…] [DEVICE…] — Scanning utility
Help Options:
-h, --help Show help options
--help-all Show all help options
--help-gtk Show GTK+ Options
GTK+ Options
--class=CLASS Program class as used by the window manager
--name=NAME Program name as used by the window manager
--gdk-debug=FLAGS GDK debugging flags to set
--gdk-no-debug=FLAGS GDK debugging flags to unset
--gtk-module=MODULES Load additional GTK+ modules
--g-fatal-warnings Make all warnings fatal
--gtk-debug=FLAGS GTK+ debugging flags to set
--gtk-no-debug=FLAGS GTK+ debugging flags to unset
Application Options:
-v, --version Show release version
-d, --debug Print debugging messages
--fix-pdf=FILENAME… Fix PDF files generated with older versions of this app
--display=DISPLAY X display to use
Maybe I’m doing something wrong but I don’t see what I want in there.
With Skanlite I tried this one
skanlite -d [device name]
But no luck.