[Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Mike]

Yes they're there

thanks

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Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 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.
>