[sane-devel] how to change xsane from defaulting to full-screen window at 100% magnification?

[Ralph Little]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 4:46 PM Ralph Little <skelband at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 4:33 PM Mark Aitchison <
> M.Aitchison at chch.planet.org.nz> wrote:
>
>> I am using xsane 0.999 on Fedora 41; it used to bring up any new scan
>> window in a
>> reasonable size, but now is always 100% zoom in a full-screen window, and
>> I see no way to
>> change this default, only to change each window after each scan.
>>
>>
> IIRC, xsane doesn't store a set of dimensions or position for the scan
> view window. At least I cannot find anything in the settings save file.
> I just had a try and if you maximise the view window, subsequent view
> windows will also now be very large. This continues until you restart
> xsane. That sounds like a bug. It would make sense for xsane to store the
> last view window settings and zoom level.
>
> It would also make sense for zoom to perhaps default to whatever level is
> required to see the entire scan. I find that 100% is rarely very useful. I
> will create an issue to address this on GitLab.
>

I have raised this issue:
https://gitlab.com/sane-project/frontend/xsane/-/issues/79
Further discussion on there is welcome.

Cheers,
Ralph
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