[Xastir] Starting xastir.

[Norm McMillan]

Tom,
I'm coming to realize that! Don't think I'm quite ready to build just
yet... It's been too long. Maybe when I'm back up to speed---  and have a
day to lose :-)

norm
vk3xci

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> 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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> > >
> > > --
> > > 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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> > >
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> Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236
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