[Xastir] RE: Xastir and Slackware Slax

[Tony Hunt]

Yep .. I am starting to think along the same lines Curt .. Thanks for
following the thread..

I grabbed Xastir 1.92 stable and tried that in case there was some issue
with 1.93. Ive compiled 1.92 without Raster map support to keep it simple as
well.

Its the same deal. The Menus have titles on them on the Top Title bar like
Interface control and Send Message Box 1 .. But the internal text is just
unreadable little boxes..

There are No errors generated when I execute it from a console which is what
I tend to do these days most of the time. The world map comes up fine on the
screen and I even stole a xastir.cnf file from my Ubuntu LSB install and
edited some of the file paths in there to make it work.. And it does appear
work receiving and plotting on the map.

So like Curt I am starting to wonder about Fonts. I have no idea where and
how to fix fonts in slackware/slax ..

Anybody ??

Tony Hunt  VK5AH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
To: "Tony Hunt" <wavetel at internode.on.net>
Cc: "Xastir mailing list" <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] RE: Xastir and Slackware Slax


> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Tony Hunt wrote:
>
> > The saga continues. Ive managed to get a Slackware 11 source for Lesstif
> > 0.95.0 and compile this ok. Follwed by a compile of xastir. The problem
with
> > the menu texts still is there. So I wonder if we are really talking
about
> > the same OpenMotif bug.
> >
> > None of the Menu Title texts or internal texts (in the menus) is in any
> > language that is readable. Its just a collection of various sized boxes
in
> > place of the text. Xastir seems to run ok but its near impossible to
> > configure from the GUI menus.
>
> I seem to remember some discussion about similar problems within the
> last year or so.  Searching through the list might yield a
> reasonable solution.  I don't recall seeing that problem myself, so
> all I can think of is installing more fonts.  It's possible you
> don't have a good selection in there and it's picking something
> goofy from what's available.
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U: <www.eskimo.com/~archer/>     XASTIR: <www.xastir.org>
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>