[Xastir] The Cigar

[kim]

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 13:49 -0400, Murry wrote:
> I like to have GoogleEarth on my computer and I like to have Xastir also.
> To use Google Earth I need the "restricted drivers" and when I enable 
> the Nvidia restricted driver I get the dreaded cigar in Xastir when I 
> click on "interface" and then "interface control"
> I have seen this on here before, anyone remember the fix?

Murry

I ran into this to this issue when I upgraded to ubuntu 7.10 from 7.04,
I am using the gnome windows manager and a nVidia GeForce 6200 PCI card.
I am pretty much a newbee at this so I can't tell you why this worked
but I will list the sequence of steps I took as everything seems to be
working ok now.

My first configuration was after the install was with the restricted
drivers installed and screen resolution at 1280x1024. At this point all
processes were running ok including GoogleEarth except I was getting the
cigar shaped window when opening the interface control and the map
chooser in xastir. Curt pointed me to a similar problem in the archives
under the title "Xastir LSB with Ubuntu ?" with an ATI card. At this
point I disabled the restricted drivers and set screen resolution to
800x600 and restarted.(this was the opposite solution to the ATI
solution) Here the interface and map chooser opened fine. I configured
xastir at this point and then changed screen resolution back to
1280x1024 and everything was still working in the xastir windows. The
last thing I did was to reinstall restricted drivers and restart. At
this point all is fine and no problems with a cigar shape window showing
up on opening windows in xastir.

Go figure?

Kim - AC7YY