[Xastir] help with fine tuning xastir

[Fred Erickson]

On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 12:46 -0600, Neville A. Cross wrote:
> When I did the festival_server command the terminal did not came back
> to the prompt. I guess is the same that happens with xastir, that it
> keep running until you stop the program, and then the prompt appears.
> In any case, it worked! no more warnings.
> 
> I remember that was some modifier to the command in order to run a
> program from the prompt, and not to lock the propmt while the program
> is running. I used once some time ago, and I forgot.
> 
> I will try rebooting my PC to see if the other idea of setting it up
> on the session properties works as well.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Neville

Neville, I believe you need to add the ampersand character after the
command to start festival to get the prompt returned to the terminal
screen. Below are the two commands I use to start festival and xastir -
you could script them I suppose but I don't bother.

HTH, Fred

[fred at localhost ~]$ festival_server &
[1] 16536
[fred at localhost ~]$ xastir &
[2] 16555
[fred at localhost ~]$ 

Built-in map types:
      gnis   USGS GNIS Datapoints
       map   APRSdos Maps
       map   WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps
       pdb   PocketAPRS Maps

Support for these additional map types has been compiled in: 
       geo   Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats
allowed)
       geo   URL (Internet maps via libcurl library)
       shp   ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library)
       tif   USGS DRG Geotiff Topographic Maps (libgeotiff/libproj)
       xpm   X Pixmap Maps (XPM library)
       tab   MapInfo TAB
       mid   MapInfo MID
       mif   MapInfo MIF
       ddf   Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)
       rt1   US Census Bureau TIGER/Line
       s57   International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-57
       dgn   MicroStation DGN

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