[Xastir] Starting xastir.

[Norm McMillan]

Hi Iain,
Going to try compiling/installing from the latest build. Bit of an
adventure for me as its been a looong time. 2006 as I recall. Thanks
anyway, I save all the links for when (not if) things go wrong.  :-)

norm
vk3xci

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Iain R. Learmonth <iain at learmonth.me>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 18/05/16 23:01, Norm McMillan wrote:
> > 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
>
> I now include a .desktop file in the Debian package, though I think this
> update missed the Jessie release. (I'm the Debian maintainer for Xastir).
>
>
> http://sources.debian.net/src/xastir/2.0.6-4/debian/xastir.desktop/
>
> Stick this into /usr/share/applications and it will appear nicely. You
> may need to install the extra-xdg-menus package in order to have the
> Hamradio submenu in your applications menu.
>
> Thanks,
> Iain.
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