[Xastir] Print and/or screen dump

[Tim Gimmel]

Curt,
Downloaded the latest CVS and snapshots are fixed!!! See debug below:

Loading imagemap: /home/tim/.xastir/tmp/map.gif

Image: /home/tim/.xastir/tmp/map.gif
Image size 1276 888
XX: 0 YY:0 Sx 431.338039 1 Sy 340.383315 1
Image size 1276 888
Unique colors = 14
XX: 0 YY:0 Sx 431.338039 1 Sy 340.383315 1
image matte is 0
Taking Snapshot
Creating /home/tim/.xastir/tmp/snapshot.xpm
Convert /home/tim/.xastir/tmp/snapshot.xpm
==> /home/tim/.xastir/tmp/snapshot.png
  Done creating png.
Caught Signal USR1, Doing a snapshot! Signal No 10
Taking Snapshot
Creating /home/tim/.xastir/tmp/snapshot.xpm
Convert /home/tim/.xastir/tmp/snapshot.xpm
==> /home/tim/.xastir/tmp/snapshot.png
  Done creating png.

Thanks for your help.  You can see a current snapshot at:

http://www.gimmel.org:8080/XASTIR_Snapshot.html

73,
Tim, KB4AMA


On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 09:58 -0800, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Jim R wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for your input.  I also continue to have the problem (I've had
> > some other pressing issues, so have been unable to post anything more to
> > this list).  Hopefully, your notes will give the developers some good clues.
> >
> > One thing that I did notice was that on Nov. 17, SuSE did some major
> > rewrite of xpm relating to some security holes.  This may just be a red
> > herring, but thought that I would mention it in case it is something in
> > common.
> 
> I think you're onto something there:  With an SuSE 9.0 system with
> all the latest Online Updates patches applied, neither of those
> functions (printing/snapshots) work.
> 
> Something broke, most likely the XPM stuff as it's used for both
> functions and like you said has had some major security problems
> fixed lately in various libraries.  Consider these bugs verified.
> Added it to the bug list.
> 
> --
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