[Xastir] Some Pocket Chip Success

[Curt Mills]

640x480 with a touch-screen truck-mount PC in my Jeep. Pentium 90? There
are some constants that can be enabled in Xastir to make this possible.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:48 AM, J. Lance Cotton <joe at lightningflash.net>
wrote:

> 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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