You can change the working directory in the menu preferences->change direcotry
XSane always uses the working directory that is listed in the xsane.rc fi= le. When there is no xsane.rc file or there is no working directory listed in= the xsane.rc file then xsane uses the recent working directory. xsane always saves the selected working direcotry line to the xsane.rc fi= le when xsane exits. Oliver Am Samstag, 24. Januar 2004 04:59 schrieb Robert M. Riches Jr.: > (Apologies if this gets posted twice. I made the mistake of > subscribing an email address that is a forwarding service, > so I can't send from that address, so postings are blocked > for moderator review. Apologies in advance if I make any > more breaches of list etiquette.) > > When using the version of xsane that comes with Red Hat > Linux 9, which claims to be xsane-0.89, I find an > interesting feature. Now, xsane remembers the "working > directory" from some earlier session and puts all the files > from --save mode there, rather than the _real_ working > directory where I'm working today. I realize most > GUI-oriented users probably want all their image files > stored in one directory, and they start xsane from their > Gnome or KDE menus. However, when I'm working in directory > Z and bring up xsane from the command line while in > directory Z, I want xsane to put the files in directory Z. > Tomorrow, I will be in another directory, and I want xsane > put the files there. > > I found the "working directory" file squirreled away in file > ~/.sane/xsane/xsane.rc, lines 5 and 6. A quick wrapper > script in Perl could update the file to reflect the > directory from which I'm invoking xsane. That would be much > easier than hacking the source code to the program to change > this unwelcome-to-me feature. > > Is there a better and/or easier way to get xsane to use the > current working directory from which it is invoked? > > Thanks. > > Robert Riches > [email protected] --=20 http://www.xsane.org http://www.rauch-domain.de http://www.sane-project.org
