[Xastir] RasPi upgrade continued ...

[Jason KG4WSV]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 9:31 PM, Dexter N Muir <dexy at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> More to the saga.
> I'd thought the disappeary-most of the Panel might have been my Pi's setup
> - I'd set the screen resolution via the Configuration Manager to CEA Mode
> 31. I found /boot/config.txt set to this where I'd usually set it *there*
> to mode 16. The difference is only 60Hz vs 50Hz, so that wasn't it (it
> didn't *look* different).
> It seems xastir is fixated on having the Panel at the bottom of the
> screen. Raspberry Pi (Raspbian) normally sets up with the Panel at the top,
> and one gets used to it, if only as a point of difference. This means that
> a fresh install of xastir will stoke up sitting at the top of the screen,
> obliterating the Panel, and leaving room below where it assumes the Panel
> will be. None of the Pi's Panel menus are then available, including the
> ability to sanely shut down/reboot! That can of course be accomplished by
> Ctrl-Alt-F2..6 and e.g. 'sudo reboot now' at the new login and command
> line, but it shouldn't be necessary.
> Having dragged the xastir window down to reveal the Panel and fill the
> bottom of the screen, all is now well, but I'd prefer not to be trapped by
> this and have to go through the 'hoop-la' at each upgrade (Pi or xastir).
> Either is quite likely to be infrequent enough (xastir is still the
> long-running 2.0.9!) that one can easily forget and be trapped by this
> afresh.
>


this all sounds like a window manager problem, not an xastir problem.

I don't have anything running stretch, but i did do a fresh install on
Jessie.  if I  tell xastir to start a (0,0) on the screen, the window
manager  is smart enough to place it below the task bar instead of covering
it up at the requested (0,0) location.

and even if it does cover up the task bar, you should have some window
decoration to grab and move/resize/etc.  if not, again, that's a broken
window manager not a broken application.

-Jason
kg4wsv