[Xastir] Starting xastir.

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 09:29:12AM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <vk3xci at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> 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.

Xastir 2.0.0 is *ANCIENT*.  You are much better off pitching that and building
from source.  The current version is 2.0.7, released in April, 2015.  2.0.0
was released in October 2010.  There have been bug fixes and compatibility
updates since then that are important to get.

One of those was the introduction the icon file, which happened in 
October 2012.  That's why you don't have it.

Clearly, whoever created the Xastir package on your system has abandoned the
package and not kept it current.  You will be much better served building
from source.

> 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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> > > > Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> > > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
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> > > Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
> >
> > --
> > Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> > Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236
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> >

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Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236        http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
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