[Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 06:20:09PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jerutley at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> I can confirm what Duffy says - I did a CVS install yesterday on FC6,
> and it appeared as about 1"x1 1/2" window on my desktop initially
> (screen res set at 1600x1200 on a 19" monitor).  But, as he says,
> after you resize and close it, it will maintain that size afterward.

Sure enough.  That's very odd, the default values of screen height and width
are 1 and 61.  Bizarre choices, I don't ever remember seeing xastir start 
up with those dimensions except during the very brief period where 
the -geometry option was added and broken.  But clearly in xa_config.c
these are the default values used if SCREEN_HEIGHT and SCREEN_WIDTH are 
not found in the config file (as they would not be on the very first run).

>From what I can see in CVS, this change happened in revision 1.17 of 
xa_config.c, where the defaults changed from 640x480 to 61x1.  That was in
2002!  I'm amazed there haven't been more comments about that.

> On 11/8/06, Amateur Radio WB8NUT <duffy at wb8nut.com> wrote:
> >Tom and all,
> >
> >It's 1.7.1 - but I was also running 1.8.x on Ubuntu/Kubuntu 6.10 native
> >installs and it does the same thing - starts for the first time as a
> >little box. It's no big deal, after you resize it, it restarts at a
> >normal size from there on out.  But if you are not expecting it, it's
> >could be easy for a first-timer to miss - hence the note.
> >
> >Duffy
> >
> >Tom Russo wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:31:09PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron 
> >collision of the <duffy at wb8nut.com> flavor, containing:
> >>
> >>> I tried this method and it works very well.
> >>>
> >>> Go to www.vmware.com and download the free VMWare Player.  Install on
> >>> your windows machine.
> >>>
> >>> Also on the VMWare site, download a virtual machine for Mepis Linux,
> >>> Ubuntu Linux, or Kubuntu.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> I just read through your write-up about this on the wiki.  You note that
> >> the first time you start xastir, it starts up with a tiny window.
> >>
> >> This was a bug in a relatively old version of xastir --- what version of
> >> xastir are you getting by doing the apt-get?  It should not happen with 
> >any
> >> of the 1.8.x versions, and probably only happened in one or two of the 
> >1.7.x
> >> versions.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >--
> >"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run 
> >away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet 
> >it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. 
> >Never run away from anything. Never!" -- Winston Churchill
> >
> >
> >
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