[Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Jason Rausch wrote:

> After playing with Xastir on my BeagleBone Black for the last week, I'm hooked. However, I'm having some difficulty with navigation on the 7" touch LCD.  The main window displays perfectly, but most of the config windows are fixed size and the buttons are off of the bottom of the screen.  In a couple of cases, I was able to dock my start bar to the left or right and just barely see enough of the buttons to press them.  Some other windows (like timing) are a complete no go.  So, is there a way I can change window sizes or at least unlock them so I can resize?  I tried to figure out changing the screen resolution in Wheezy, but being new to Linux (Again!  It seems like I start all over every time.) I couldn't figure it out.  (We're not in Microsoft land anymore!).  Of course, I'm afraid that when I do change the resolution everything will be so tiny that it's unusable.
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> Also, for the life of me, I cannot figure out a way to add a shortcut to the desktop to avoid having to open the terminal every time and issue command "xastir &" jst to get it running.  Does anyone have any tips on that?
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> Is there a version or config file that makes Xastir more touch screen friendly?  Bigger buttons, ect?

What's your resolution you're working with?

I did some tweaks to the code years ago to work with a 640x480 touch screen I had in my Jeep.  If you have that or better, it can be made to work.

Look at the top of main.c.  Do a search for "touch".  You'll see some defines there.  Uncomment those, then recompile/reinstall to activate them.

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