[Xastir] RE: Xastir and Slackware Slax

[Lee Bengston]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Tony Hunt <wavetel at internode.on.net> wrote:

> Well here we go again.. Ive got xastir going.. I used the Slackware
> pkgtool
> and loaded Openmotif 2.3.0 for Slackw 12 and ImageMagick 6.3.3 also.
>
> Xastir compiles and runs but has a strange problem that I have not seen
> before.
> The Menu texts are missing. There are just small boxes in place of the
> Text
> on all menus. making it a real memory test to drive xastir. What is this
> issue ?


There's a known bug in OpenMotif 2.3, and it sounds like that is what you
have run into.  From what I have seen, version 2.2.3 and 2.2.4 work fine,
but I have never tried 2.2.2.  Where did you find the Slackware package for
OpenMotif 2.2.2?  I never found a Slackware package for OpenMotif when I
making Xastir work with VectorLinux 5.9.  Is there perhaps a 2.2.3 version
where that came from?  If all else fails you may want to try Lesstif.
That's what I did to make things work on Vector - a few minor text issues
with some menu items, but nothing major.

Lee - K5DAT