[Xastir] Ubuntu 7.10 and XASTIR

[Tony Hunt]

Robert. Have a look at your video card settings. Ive seen similar oddities
here under 7.10. I have a Nvidia card with the Restricted drivers enabled. I
found installing a different window manager KDE or XFCE fixed the problem in
that it only seems to occur under Gnome.
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kde
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/xubuntu

More to the point perhaps have a search in the mail group archives for
"cigar" . Of recent times there has been talk about the Cigar issue with
Ubuntu. Here is an extract from a earlier mail.

We have found that the Cigar issue seems to centre around Gnome and
Restricted Drivers with the   "Desktop Effects" enabled . Well thats how it
was for me.

Have a search for the "Desktop Effects" in the Gnome system menu from
memory. Mine
was set to Normal and this caused the Cigars to appear. Setting it to OFF
fixed it along with using XFce and KDE desktops.

Tony Hunt  VK5AH

----- Original Message ----- 
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:33:46 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu 7.10 and XASTIR
> To: "Robert C. Rogers" <n8fau15 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Xastir at xastir.org
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804110831350.8006 at wapiti2>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Robert C. Rogers wrote:
>
> > One problem is after a couple minutes if I try to open any of  the drop
down
> > screens it opens as a very small window in the upper left corner.  If I
try to
> > do anything else I loose the top bar on the open window and so far the
only
> > fix for that is a reboot.....
>
> Xastir opens a small window which it uses to then try to gauge the
> height/width of the window decorations.  It sounds like your window
> manager is misbehaving with these windows for some reason.  They
> should appear for a fraction of a second (depending on the speed of
> your hardware) and then disappear.
>
> What window manager are you using?  Can you switch to another one
> easily to see if that solves this particular problem?  I have a
> large choice of window managers on my system.
>
> -- 
> Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com