[Xastir] Another possible bug with CVS.

[Curt Mills]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Dick C. Reichenbach wrote:
>
> > Again, I'm running Solaris 8 on Sparc Hardware, under VNC.
>
> Is VNC set so that it doesn't update unless you move your mouse?
>
> There are VNC settings that reduce the traffic across the LAN.  I
> usually set most of those so that nothing happens unless I move the
> mouse.
>
> Is it the Xastir machine itself that appears to hang, or the view
> you have of it on the remote machine?  Might be hard to tell since
> you're running VNC.

You could turn on snapshots, and then check the snapshot every five
minutes to see if Xastir is updating it's map.  That would tell you
whether it was VNC or Xastir that was refusing to update.

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