[Xastir] Some Pocket Chip Success

[J. Lance Cotton]

I believe Curt Mills gets the credit for small-screen use. At one time, I
recall he was using Xastir on a relatively small external touchscreen
monitor in a vehicle.

-Lance KJ5O

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Kurt <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
>
>      Got Xastir going in the Pocket CHIP and discovered through a posting
> on the CHIP forum that a recalcitrant Window can be re-positioned
> with holding the "Alt" key while pressing and holding the left mouse button
> and scrolling around!  Now I have to see if I can tame a Bluetooth problem
> and will be all set.  I'm surprised how well Xastir looks in this small
> screen on a nativelinux Debian "jessie" distro.  A cold boot and start of
> Xastir takes 2 minutes 20 seconds of the offline Cloudmade map of Illinois
> I have stored to come up but repaints from zooming are pretty quick zooming
> in and longer zooming out.  I can live with it.
> I didn't have the skills to put a pure Linux ROM on a Nexus device so took
> a chance on this and quite frankly I'm impressed withit.  Sure, only a
> single cpu and it's not a fire breathing laptop but I certainly could run
> portable with this.  I just have to get a B/TTNC to pair and run reliably.
> I was able to see a B/T GPS come up albeit a 38.4bps unit.  I was able to
> get an NMEA 9600bpsreceiver to pair with the 38.4 but not with the 57.6 B/T
> GPS attached. Kurt KC9LDH
>
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