hp-uiscan installed with hplip

[maurizio]

Hello all,
I reinstalled hplip on my freebsd 12.1. I got a new element inside the menu of my xfce desktop: hp-uiscan under "Application->Other".
When I click on it, I get this error: "Failed to execute command "/usr/bin/hp-uiscan". Failed to execute child process "/usr/bin/hp-uiscan" (No such file or directory) "
What is hp-uiscan? Why was a new element "hp-uiscan" created inside the menu if no file is linked to it?

 

[T-Daemon]

I get this error: "Failed to execute command "/usr/bin/hp-uiscan". Failed to execute child process "/usr/bin/hp-uiscan" (No such file or directory) "

Thats a bug. The path is for Linux set. Go to file /usr/local/share/applications/hp-uiscan.desktop, change line Exec=/usr/bin/hp-uiscan to Exec=/usr/local/bin/hp-uiscan, eventually file a bug report.

What is hp-uiscan?

Run in terminal hp-uiscan, find out.

Why was a new element "hp-uiscan" created inside the menu if no file is linked to it?

When print/hplip was installed the hp-uiscan.desktop file has been installed, xfce reads /usr/local/share/applications/*.desktop files and creates menu entries:

howto:customize-menu [Xfce Wiki]

wiki.xfce.org

The wrong path (link) results because the program is ported from Linux.