[Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Mike wrote:

> Im new to Xastir and trying it out. Is there currently a problem with the 
> Snapshot.png module? I looking for some help. I cant get the thing to work. 
> Nothing shows up in ~/.xastir/tmp/  at all. I am running rev 1.9.7 on a P4, 
> 1.3 GHz with Kubuntu. I verified that the ImageMagick module is installed and 
> operating by running the convert command in a shell. Tried different maps as 
> well as toggling the snapshot.png module on/off several times. can anyone 
> help?

It works.  Make sure you have libXpm installed as it uses that to
create the initial snapshot.xpm, then uses GM or IM to convert it to
a PNG.

On my 64-bit OpenSuSE-11.1 system here I have these installed:

     xorg-x11-libXpm-7.4-1.30
     xorg-x11-libXpm-devel-7.4-1.30
     xorg-x11-libXpm-32bit-7.4-1.27


> P.S. the alarms are not working either. I installed the wav files in the 
> sound folder and verified matching file names. This problem is not a priority 
> to me but just in case its related.

Unfortunately there is no particular sound player that comes with
every Linux distribution, not to mention OSX, Solaris, Cygwin, etc.
You'll have to fine-tune the command-line there to fit whatever it
is that works on your system.  On my home system I use:

     /usr/bin/aplay -q

Try out various players and command-line switches on the command
line until you can play a sound file, then put that command into
Xastir in the File->Configure->Audio Alarms dialog.

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