[Xastir] Pan & zoom buttons

David djmunn at bigpond.com
Fri Aug 5 05:37:12 EDT 2011


Hi Ray...thanks for the heads-up on Teamviewer...
have d/l and tried it with my 2 desktops
works very well....

73 David VK4BDJ




On 08/05/2011 08:13 AM, Ray Wells wrote:
> 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 :>
>>
>
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