[Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts

[Jason Rausch]

Tom,

Installing xfonts-100dpi helped.  I had to go down to a size of 10 to see the buttons on the station config screen.  Other screens that are longer, that is still too big.  I'm just going to have to find some kind of happy medium, but changing config on certain things is going to be tough, if at all.
 
Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV
RPC Electronics, LLC
www.rpc-electronics.com


________________________________
 From: Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org>
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org> 
Cc: Jason Rausch <jason at ke4nyv.com> 
Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
 

On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 01:36:33PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kg4wsv at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> I fired up xfontsel on the BBB.  on my old CentOS xastir config, my
> fonts (which I think are the xastir defaults)  are
> 
> MAPS_LABEL_FONT_TINY:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--8-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> MAPS_LABEL_FONT_SMALL:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> MAPS_LABEL_FONT_MEDIUM:-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> MAPS_LABEL_FONT_LARGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> MAPS_LABEL_FONT_HUGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--24-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> MAPS_LABEL_FONT_BORDER:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> 
> 
> but the BBB doesn't have any adobe fonts.  I suspect you are getting
> some random font since the defaults aren't available.

It is possible that Wheezy did the same thing Ubuntu did, unbundling
what used to be default fonts in X from the packages that get installed
with X.  When I first installed Xastir on a laptop that came with Ubuntu
12.04 I discovered this and hated it.  But there's a way to get those

fonts.

Try installing "xfonts-100dpi" 

This was one of those things that cheesed me off when I first installed
Ubuntu 12.04 on my cracktop.  Perhaps Ubuntu learned it from Debian.

http://www.bogodyn.org/blog/?p=37#more-37

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