[Xastir] Starting xastir.

[Norm McMillan]

David, Tom,
Thanks for the help. It's all coming back out the way it went in...
slowly   :-)
No sign of icon.png for xastir on build 2.0.0-2.1ubuntu1 but no matter.
Launching from the main menu with the default icon.

I may get back to it when I get the rest of the Ham Radio stuff set up

norm
vk3xci


On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 06:15:30PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <kg4giy at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > I would guess the .desktop goes in the root of you home directory
> (/home/UID). Don't know about the icon. You could make one :)
>
> The .desktop file more likely goes in the "Desktop" subdirectory of your
> home directory.  At least, that's where normal gnome desktops expect them.
>
> There is an icon installed by the Xastir build.  It'll be in the share
> directory that got installed.  If you used a default prefix in a source
> build of Xastir, that'll be /usr/local/share/xastir/symbols/icon.png.  If
> a package-installed build from a repo, it'd be in /usr/share instead of
> /usr/local/share.
>
> On my Ubuntu laptop, the Xastir.desktop file I created is:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=1.0
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=Xastir
> Type=Application
> Terminal=false
> Exec=xastir
> Comment=APRS
> Icon=/usr/local/share/xastir/symbols/icon.png
>
> There are old threads that might tell you to set LOCALE here, but those
> are obsolete and bad advice.  At least one user (me) found that doing that
> in
> the .desktop file caused Xastir to stop responding to keyboard events in
> dialog boxes after a little while.  Motif bug.
>
> > > On May 18, 2016, at 6:01 PM, Norm McMillan <vk3xci at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Good morning,
> > >
> > > trolled around a few threads re starting xastir from a terminal or
> from a
> > > .desktop. At the moment I'm starting it from a terminal, which of
> course
> > > stays open behind the application.
> > > Writing a .desktop is trivial... but
> > >
> > > Where do I put it?
> > > Where do I find the icon?
> > >
> > > I'm back to linux after 10 or so years in the Windows commercial
> world, so
> > > please excuse the noob questions. Last was kubuntu 6.06 on a Toshiba
> A10
> > > laptop!
> > >
> > > norm
> > > vk3xci
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