How does one set Simple Scan to scan at 11" from a Brother DCP7065DN's page feeder?

Sun Jun 12 04:50:11 UTC 2016

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Rick Berger <rckbrgr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Haven't made much progress, did check your suggestions, nothing seemed
> unreasonable.
>
> I've also realized there are other applications like Nautilus and Evince
> that don't show their menu bar.
>
> I did try booting into a 32bit 13.04 version I forgot I installed a couple
> of years ago as the second system in the dual boot of this system, it shows
> the menu bar alright. The menus appear at top of the screen when moused
> over. This at least suggests it's not the monitor. 13.04 didn't seem to
> have an option to switch them to the application's window.
>
> Oh, I did try a Guest Session and there was no different.
>
> I'm temped to install 16.04 over top of the 13.04 system, just to see what
> that gives me.
>

A few Google searches indicate a similar-sounding bug reported against
Xenial (16.04), and a fix was recently released to the bamf package.

You might try some of the workarounds listed here, though I can't confirm
that the bug existed in Trusty (Ubuntu 14.04). I haven't seen it (yet) on
any of my Trusty systems however.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/762137/applications-menu-missing-from-menu-bar

SO this is grasping at straws. Unless you somehow installed some strange
updates to your Trusty system (did you install something from a
non-standard archive?) I am not sure what else to recommend.

OH and you might try booting with either Trusty or Xenial from a live image
(USB stick or DVD) and see if you see the same behavior. Good luck!

>
> On 16-06-10 09:54 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Rick Berger <rckbrgr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for pointing out the menu bar. I don't have it. I must of turned
>> it off somewhere along the line. I just tried switching options in System
>> Settings - Appearance - Behavior  - "Show the menus for a window". It still
>> won't appear. I'll hunt around tomorrow to fined out where one switch's it
>> back on.
>>
>
> Do you now, or did you ever have more than one screen attached? Are you
> using a monitor with underscan (like a TV) that doesn't display all the way
> to the edge of the image? Maybe the menu is going somewhere you cannot see.
>
> You might check
>
> System Settings --> Displays
>
> and see if it shows more than one display, and also see what you have set
> for the "Scale" of the menu and title bars.
>
> And finally, you can open a Guest Session and see if you can see the menus
> there, (or create a new temporary user account). If the menus operate
> correctly in a new account, or in the Guest Session, then I would suspect
> corrupted settings files somewhere in your home directory.
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On 16-06-09 11:13 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Rick Berger < <rckbrgr at gmail.com>
>> rckbrgr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This hasn't been a high priority for me, thus the lag in responding, but
>>> I did try cropping before scanning from the feeder, and it didn't help.
>>>
>>> You indicated twiddling a Preferences setting, what version of
>>> Simple-Scan are you using? I'm using 3.12.3 on Ubuntu 14.04, it doesn't
>>> have a Document menu.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I use version 3.12.3 on Ubuntu 14.04. (I haven't yet upgraded my
>> primary systems to 16.04 "Xenial.")
>>
>> The document menu is in the menu bar, which in Unity is normally visible
>> when you mouse to the top of the screen when the application window is
>> active. The Simple Scan application puts three menus in the menu bar:
>> Document, Page, and Help.
>>
>> P.S.: One cool thing you may have never noticed (since you didn't see the
>> menu) is the keyboard accelerators -- I have found when I can't use the
>> automatic feeder I can stretch my keyboard over to the scanner and kick off
>> scans using Ctrl+1. (That way I don't have to tinker with the Brother scan
>> daemon that's required to activate the scan button on the device's front
>> panel.)
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On 16-06-06 06:50 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Rick Berger < <rckbrgr at gmail.com>
>>> rckbrgr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> When scanning from the page feeder on my Brother DCP7065DN
>>>> printer/scanner, all th pages are scanned as legal, 14". Is there a way to
>>>> set Simple Scan to scan at 11" from the feeder?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I have been using SimpleScan for years on my Brother DCP7020
>>> printer/scanner, and most documents I scan are 8.5 x 11 inches, though the
>>> scanner always scans a slightly different default size and I always choose
>>> to Crop the scan to "Letter" size before beginning the scan. (You can crop
>>> after the scan, but it's much faster to have it crop from the start.)
>>>
>>> I recently switched to scanning some 14 inch "Legal" documents, and was
>>> surprised when it didn't switch back to Letter size by itself. I believe I
>>> had to twiddle the settings under Document --> Preferences to get it back
>>> to 8.5 x 11 again.
>>>
>>> If that doesn't work for you, first I would suggest you check on the
>>> Brother Linux support site to see if you have the latest version of their
>>> scanner driver for your hardware and your version of Ubuntu. I know on my
>>> scanner the driver lags WAY behind my version of Ubuntu (since the DCP7020
>>> is so old) but I was able to futz around with it and make the latest
>>> version work on Ubuntu 14.04 even though the actual package was broken and
>>> didn't install correctly.
>>>
>>> When I'm ready to update that computer to Ubuntu 16.04 I fully expect to
>>> have to kick and jiggle the Brother scanner package to get it to work all
>>> over again.... and if it doesn't.... I'll have to come up with something
>>> else. :-)
>>>
>>> Be sure to report back here if you run into trouble. I am not at that
>>> computer now so let me know if you need specific details about the driver.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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