[Xastir] Pan & zoom buttons

[Ray Wells]

I use Teamviewer to achive a similar end result. Teamviewer is free for 
private use and it gets around ISP's who block port 5900. It's available 
for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Ray vk2tv

On 05/08/11 00:58, Steve Huston wrote:
> I've finally got back on the air after a three year hiatus or so, and
> setup my APRS station again but running on the server in the basement
> instead of a desktop that is on all the time.  The down side is that I
> want to be able to "open" xastir whenever, and see what's been going on
> as well as keep digipeating (when I set it up again) even when I'm not
> connected to it.
>
> After a bit of searching, I found 'xpra', which is pretty good - it has
> some hitches here and there, but for the most part it lets me detach an
> X11 program and reattach it somewhere else later.  I can keep xastir
> running on my headless server and view it when I turn my desktop on (or
> connect from somewhere else).
>
> One problem that's happened a couple times now is that the pan and zoom
> buttons on the top of the screen get greyed out and no longer work.  I
> can still use the mouse menu to do either, but don't know why they were
> disabled or how to enable them again.
>
> Any hints?  Also, anyone else doing something similar with any other
> (maybe better) tools?  I looked at 'nx' but documentation seemed a bit
> too sparse for my liking - ie, in a half hour I still couldn't figure
> out what to do, so I went back to xpra :>
>