[Xastir] Xastir LSB with Ubuntu ?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Tony Hunt wrote:

> Since that original post I installed KDE and made this Ubuntu install with a
> KDE option. Not an entirely uncommon manuver..

Yea, it's called Kubuntu I think.


> Ive updated the Xastir LSB install to the latest one but it still smokes
> Cigars in Gnome with the Interfaces menu. Maybee its a bug in the LSB code.
> Not all Menus have this issue. Hope someone has seen this one before.. I am
> thinking of installing the Xfce desktop also and trying it on there as well
> under Ubuntu.

For what it's worth I did my testing on OpenSuSE with the FVWM2
window manager.  Probably Xfce would be the closest.


> Ubuntu is all up to date as well so I am now looking back at the LSB Xastir
> package as the culprit in Gnome.

I don't run Gnome (or KDE) on any of my machines (they're too
frickin slow!), so I've not seen this bug.  If it happens with one
window manager and not with others, I'd first think it to be a
window manager issue, but then it could also be something about our
widgets that we're doing wrong also, where some window manager just
don't care.


> The LSB Install is a great option to get Xastir working with the latest
> version on many different Flavors of Xastir that dont have really up to date
> repositries but do have a LSB packages available. I was also just playing
> with PCLinux and the LSB package looks like it would run on there as well..

Glad you like it.  Once I got all the scripts going it's an easy
matter to pop out a new one when I do each snapshot.  Same for the
SuSE RPM's.


> >Also noticed that the terminal brings up these errors.
> >convert_from_xastir_coordinates:X out-of-range (too low):4263101696
> >convert_from_xastir_coordinates:X out-of-range (too high):161465600

Ignore those.  Those are caused by being zoomed out too far.  I
suspect you're at "world" size on your map when you get those.
Depending on the aspect ratio of your Xastir window and your zoom
level, Xastir complains like that when the edge of the world goes
inside your current window.

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