[Xastir] xfontsel

[David A Aitcheson]

Tom,

I just spent a enjoyable almost hour on the phone with Joe VA3JLF. He
now is running Xastir from source code but is still getting some errors
which as near as I can tell are pi based; they are not ones I have had
experience with; and both of us had cell phone batteries that were
almost empty.

I have also pointed him at some of the Wiki's.

Joe VA3JLF, the main Wiki that you should look at is at
https://xastir.org/index.php/Main_Page and is the root for all
information Xastir related. Otherwise ask a question here on the
reflector if you can not find a answer in the archived messages. (We
promise not to bite, although some may bark a bit, ;-) )

73
Dave
KB3EFS


On 11/01/2017 06:54 PM, russo at bogodyn.org wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 06:46:32PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <joe at laferla.ca> flavor, containing:
>> Hi Tom
>>
>> Please help me because I am a bit confused.  I did not ???configure and compile??? xastir.  I did a sudo apt-get install xastir.  Also, I do not have an xastir directory, although there is a hidden directory in my home directory.  However there is no config.h in there.  
>> As well, I don???t know if the x11 utils were installed at xastir install time because it would all have been during the apt-get install process.  I can slick in the different font windows but the xfonstel buttons remain greyed out.
> Well, that means that whoever created the xastir package for the system
> did so without x11-utils being installed, and therefore created a binary that
> will have disabled xfontsel buttons.  
>
>> Is there another way of installing xastir other than what I did?  
> Yes, compile it from source.  That's the preferred way, because system package
> repositories almost always lag too far behind, and most only include released
> versions of Xastir.  It has been quite a long time since we've actually done
> a real release, most of us are working directly out of the git repository.
>
> This would be your only choice to get xfontsel working on this system.  Or
> pester whoever made the package to rebuild it with x11-utils installed, and
> make x11-utils a required package for xastir.
>
>> From: Tom Russo
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 6:00 PM
>> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
>> Subject: Re: [Xastir] xfontsel
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 05:55:29PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <joe at laferla.ca> flavor, containing:
>>> Hi Jason
>>>
>>> I tried to install x11-utils but it looks like I already have it loaded.  It says that my version is the latest. The xfontsel buttons are still greyed out.
>> Xastir must be able to find xfontsel at *configure* time in order for the
>> xfontsel buttons to be enabled.
>>
>> If you configured and compiled xastir before installing x11-utils, you'll 
>> have to redo it to enable this feature.
>>
>> You can check to see if configure found xfontsel by grepping for "XFONTSEL"
>> in your config.h file (located at the top of your build directory).  If
>> it doesn't say:
>>
>> /* Define if you have xfontsel */
>> #define HAVE_XFONTSEL 1
>>
>> but instead says
>> /* Define if you have xfontsel */
>> /* #undef HAVE_XFONTSEL */
>>
>> then you must re-run configure, and recompile/reinstall.
>>
>>
>>> From: Jason KG4WSV
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 9:58 AM
>>> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
>>> Subject: Re: [Xastir] xfontsel
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Joseph LaFerla <joe at laferla.ca> wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I am running xastir on my Stretch pi and have a question about changing fonts.  I did look around the archives and googled but I still cannot get xfontsel to work.  I choose configure|fonts and the fonts window opens up and all the xfontsel buttons on the right hand side are greyed out.  I tried to do an apt-get install xfontsel but that didn???t work either.  What am I doing wrong or is this another problem with Stretch????
>>> sounds like you may not have the x11-utils package loaded. xfontsel is
>>> no longer part of the default distribution on many distros.
>>>
>>> -Jason
>>> kg4wsv
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