[Xastir] Send message function broken on Ubuntu Linux?

[David A Aitcheson]

On 12/1/18 11:08 AM, Lee Bengston wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 10:41 AM David A Aitcheson
> <david.aitcheson at gmail.com <mailto:david.aitcheson at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Curt / Tom,
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>     de Dave KB3EFS
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>     Not sure if it is Xastir or a Gnome on Ubuntu 14.04.04 issue.
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>     As recently as this past summer I was able to send a message to a APRS
>     mobile from my laptop via APRS-IS.
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>     Now I can bring up the screen and get the cursor in the correct field
>     but when I type a message it does not show up on the screen.
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> Hey Dave,
> This same problem cropped up this week on my laptop.  I hadn't made
> any changes since Sunday, but on Wednesday when I tried to answer a
> message I couldn't type anything into the field.  I was able to send
> messages normally on Monday and Tuesday - and also last week and on
> through the weekend, so it's strange to me that it suddenly happened
> on its own. Copy/paste using the center mouse button still worked. 
> Shutting down Xastir and restarting fixed it.  On Friday morning it
> happened again.  I restarted again, and so far so good since then. 
> Overall it's not a big deal since I can get out of it.  Ubuntu 18.04
> here using the Mate desktop.
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>     I refreshed Xastir with the included update script this morning; but I
>     am not sure of when this function stopped working.
>

Thank you Lee. With all that is going wrong in my life it is good to
know that I am not alone in the Xastir hiccup department!

Dave - KB3EFS