[Xastir] change station font

Chris Hare kd5wim at attbi.com
Sat May 24 11:59:02 EDT 2003


thanks.  My biggest issue, if I didn't mention it before is the station
font..... everything else is okay.

Chris


On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 01:23, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On 23 May 2003, Chris Hare wrote:
> 
> > I am a little visually challenged and I would like to change the font
> > size on the stations displayed in xastir.  Is that possible?
> 
> I have a temporary solution.  Take this file attachment and put it
> into your xastir directory.  On mine it'd be /home/<user>/src/xastir/
> Name it "bigfont.patch".
> 
> Don't do the other change I suggested.  It's included in this patch.
> If you've already done it, you can delete the main.c file and then
> run "cvs update" to get the original file back again, assuming that
> you're running Xastir CVS and not a snapshot release.
> 
> Run these commands:
> 
> 	cd src/xastir
> 	patch -p0 <bigfont.patch
> 	make
> 	su
> 	make install-strip
> 	chmod 4555 /usr/local/bin/xastir
> 	exit
> 
> When you start Xastir, you might want want to change your
> Maps->Station Text Style to "Black Border".  The background colors
> for the other two possibilities were outgrown by the font I chose.
> 
> I see a few minor glitches here and there with how some of the
> dialogs are constructed, made obvious by the much larger font.  I
> also see one dialog that is glaringly incorrect (Audio Config), so
> I'll try to fix that one up tomorrow.
> 
> Let me know if anything's unusable because of the larger fonts.
> 
> Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo.com
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