[Xastir] Icon

[Dexter N Muir]

On 27/01/15 07:04, xastir-request at lists.xastir.org wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 13:59:10 -0500
> From: Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com>
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Icon
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> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:29 AM, Dexter N Muir <dexy at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
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>>     Your update will be eagerly awaited.
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>>     Meanwhile, my CVS build was working fine until reboot, then zilch I
>> looked at permissions, and all seemed OK, but still nothing. Finally
>> inspiration: ownership. The working system was post build, and had even
>> picked up on the previous config - would it work run as root? Put a sudo in
>> the desktop file Exec line, and voila! Had to re-configure, though.  How
>> now to get it to run as _me_ (user) and recognise ~/.xastir files? Should
>> there be a chown somewhere in the script so it will run as user post-build?
>>
>> ?I think you may have used the script I have provided to others for
> compiling on the RPi.  There's nothing I am aware of in the way the script
> installs Xastir that would require you to run Xastir as root.  In fact, I
> am fairly sure that my own installation on the Pi was done using that
> script, and I do not have to run Xastir as root.  So all I can say is I am
> baffled by that requirement.  Other folks that have used the script did not
> report back that they needed to run Xastir as root.
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> Are you using AX25 networking?
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> Lee - K5DAT
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Thanks Lee and all...

    Tom Russo's post in Vol.72 gave the answer: any instance of /usr/ in 
~/.xastir/xastir.cnf amended to /usr/local/. Save, and all's right with 
the world! No need for the sudo...

73 de ZL2DEX