Re: [Xastir] work-around for right-click problem under Cygwin
On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:07 PM, David Flood wrote: Is this a true PS/2 keyboard or a USB one? This sounds like some sort of negative interaction in keyboard control lines like used to happen with some printer ports and PS2 keyboards. Hi David! I'm using a USB keyboard. On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:32:12 -0800, Dale Seaburg kg...@verizon.net wrote: I saw the freeze-up with a right-click in the map region as others have mentioned. I remembered someone saying to turn on Num-Lock, get the warning message about turning it off. I turned on Num-Lock, got the warning, turned off Num-Lock as instructed. The right-click started working. The only thing different is that I have to hold down the right-button to stay in that mode. It's not a right-click-on, left-click-off as under linux. I did not have to turn on Num-Lock before starting xastir. I can do it after xastir is running. Hi Dale! I don't have that particular feature; I get right-click-on, left-click-off. Finally, here are some thoughts that I have put off writing about until now. I really like this setup. That is such good news about the upgraded Cygwin. And, indeed it works slick for xastir. [snip] I had installed VirtualBox, but was less than satisfied with it. It was when I saw the blurb about the upgraded Cygwin, that I gave it a shot and am so glad I did. The main impetus of my effort was to get other local hams going with xastir, rather than some other PC-centric APRS client, but lessen the issues of working with *nix. Consider me a satisfied customer. I concur! I spent four years as a professional software developer, and in my opinion the future belongs to software that will run on any platform. XASTIR fills the bill nicely as far as I'm concerned. I thought about trying other Windows APRS software, but the app with the most market share hasn't been maintained since the author's key fell silent in 2004, and the app seems to require purchasing expensive mapping software that I've never heard of to make it work. (Thanks but no thanks, UI-View32.) XASTIR's installation procedure for Windows is clunky, but I understand why. If I had more time available I would volunteer to streamline the installation procedure for Windows users. Considering that XASTIR's authors are all busy people improving and maintaining the software in their free time for nothing, it really is excellent software. Bravo! And Bravo to all the people who offer friendly advice on the reflector! 73, - Rob W7GH ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] work-around for right-click problem under Cygwin
Hi All, I recently had a problem with XASTIR 1.9.7 installed on Cygwin. At first everything worked fine, but soon I had an intermittent problem: if I right-clicked on an icon, often the mouse pointer would change from an arrow pointing northwest to an arrow pointing northeast, and then the program would be completely unresponsive to mouse or keyboard input. The same would apply for the xterm that launched XASTIR, until XASTIR was killed by clicking the Windows red X in the upper-right corner. I discovered a work-around. The purpose of this email is to document the work-around in case someone else has the same problem in the future. The work-around is to launch XASTIR with Num Lock on. Then when I right-click on an icon in XASTIR I get the familiar warning to turn off Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock. Then when I turn off Num Lock everything works fine. Thanks to all who took the time to consider my problem. And thanks to all who wrote and who maintain XASTIR. What a cool program! 73, - Rob W7GH ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] Cygwin problem, probably routine
Hello All, I'm very pleased to have recently installed XASTIR on Cygwin here. (I installed Cygwin for the purpose of running XASTIR. I went the Cygwin route because I'm considering dabbling with other Linux apps on Cygwin.) However I've run into a vexing problem: suddenly if I right-click on the map, the mouse pointer changes from an arrow pointing northwest to an arrow pointing northeast, and then XASTIR refuses to respond to any further mouse clicks or keyboard keys. And it's not just XASTIR; xterm doesn't respond either. All I can do is kill XASTIR and xterm the Windows way (the big red X in the upper-right corner) and stop the Cygwin/X Server by right-clicking the tray icon and clicking Exit. As far as I know I haven't changed anything in my Cygwin environment since installing XASTIR. I think I must be doing something wrong. Does anyone have any clue, or should I ask on one of the Cygwin lists? 73, - Rob W7GH ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Cygwin problem, probably routine
Hi Curt and David, and thank you for venturing to answer my question. Unfortunately I left out a crucial fact the first time around: XASTIR worked just fine for a few days when I first installed it. So I don't think that the problem is with the installation. (And for the record, I followed the old Cygwin install instructions first, and ran into problems in the configure step. David heard my pitiful cries for help and unveiled the new Cygwin install instructions, which worked.) Also I discovered that if I get the problem and kill XASTIR, then xterm works again. I previously reported that xterm doesn't respond to keyboard or mouse events either once XASTIR stops responding. I don't think that it has to do with the NumLock/CapsLock problem. If I forget to turn NumLock off and click on something in XASTIR, I get told firmly but politely to turn off NumLock. Also the problem seems to be somewhat intermittent; sometimes I can get the right-click menu to work. I've been playing with it, and I can't seem to duplicate the problem every time. This seems like a weird one. I think I'll see if anyone in the Cygwin community might have any ideas... 73, - Rob W7GH ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] xastir on cygwin installation problem
I sent this message earlier before I got the welcome to the list message, so I presume that the first copy went into the bit bucket. I apologize if the list gets this message twice. - Rob W7GH ** Greetings all, I've been reading about APRS for a while now, and I decided that I just had to download and run xastir. I decided to install it on cygwin. I'm somewhat Unix-savvy, I used to be a Unix programmer back in the early nineties, and I dabbled briefly with Linux around 1998. So I managed to get myself well and truly stuck with the installation. I used cvs to checkout the latest xastir. The configure step fails with the dreaded error NO MOTIF HEADERS FOUND install Motif development headers or use --with-motif-includes to specify location of Xm/Xm.h. I did install the lesstif package as advised by the instructions. I searched, and Xm.h is nowhere to be found on my cygwin installation. There is no lesstif-devel package in cygwin. I thought about downloading and building lesstif from source, but I read somewhere that Xm.h is a motif header, and doesn't come with lesstif. (Of course that was at 1am, and I can't find that reference now, so I'm not so sure about that.) So should my next step be to install lesstif from source? 73, - Rob W7GH ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
