Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 07:19:51AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the ja...@ke4nyv.com flavor, containing: Tom, Thanks for explaining that. I can see the mouse behavior change and the change to the bottom status bar, but any menu that was longer than the screen is still off the bottom where I can't access the buttons. Should this change have re-sized the windows? Can't say -- I think you might have to change font sizes or something. I've already exhausted what I know about this option. Others who have actually used it will have to answer this. From: ru...@bogodyn.org ru...@bogodyn.org To: Jason Rausch ja...@ke4nyv.com Cc: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org; Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 11:33 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 08:10:19PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [1]ja...@ke4nyv.com flavor, containing: I forgot to mention the other change I noticed is the mouse pointer behavior. Now, when I click on the map or try to hold down to draw a zoom box, I get the pop up menu. Clicking away from the menu closes it and returns to the map. Is this normal behavior when the touch LCD option is enabled? I'm assuming this is a way to speed up operation when using a touch only interface. Ah. Sorry, Jason, when I wrote that email I first had several paragraphs describing how to hand-edit the code, and explaining what everything did, but then I realized that it was easier to do the CPPFLAGS thing and deleted all that explanation. LCD640x480TOUCH enables three things: - FIXED_DIALOG_STARTUP - SWAP_MOUSE_BUTTONS - USE_TWO_STATUS_LINES These are the three things that Curt found made his use of his 640x480 touch screen more usable. - FIXED_DIALOG_STARTUP This makes all the dialog boxes pop up in a fixed location instead of cycling through locations for each new dialog. That prevents them from being part-way off-screen when they pop up. - SWAP_MOUSE_BUTTONS This makes the left mouse button (a tap on the screen) do what the right mouse button usually does on 3-button mouse desktops/laptops --- pop up a menu. Curt can comment, but I believe that what he found in using his touch-screen system was that more often he wanted to tap the screen to bring up a menu rather than to zoom in. - USE_TWO_STATUS_LINES This splits up the normally long single status line on large-screen monitors into two lines, presumably so they are more readable on small screens. Defining LCD640x480TOUCH is the same as defining all three of the above upper-case symbols, i.e., enabling all three features. If you would rather do only some subset, you can define only the symbol you think is useful: ../configure CPPFLAGS=-DFIXED_DIALOG_STARTUP -DSWAP_MOUSE_BUTTONS -DUSE_TWO_STATUS_LINES is identical to ../configure CPPFLAGS=-DLCD640x480TOUCH You also need to change font sizes to make your smaller screen less cluttered. Someone who actually uses these small-screen options would be better suited to give you guidance than I am. I was just trying to get you jump-started with the compilation options that Curt had suggested. -- Tom RussoKM5VY SAR502 DM64ux [2]http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 [3]http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] References Visible links 1. mailto:ja...@ke4nyv.com 2. http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ 3. http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM -- Tom RussoKM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, ru...@bogodyn.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 07:19:51AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the ja...@ke4nyv.com flavor, containing: Tom, Thanks for explaining that. I can see the mouse behavior change and the change to the bottom status bar, but any menu that was longer than the screen is still off the bottom where I can't access the buttons. Should this change have re-sized the windows? Can't say -- I think you might have to change font sizes or something. I've already exhausted what I know about this option. Others who have actually used it will have to answer this. No, it won't resize. Your only option might be to play with fonts. I remember (from years back) that there were still a few dialogs that were too large for the screen, but I was using FVWM as my window manager and was able to move to another virtual screen to work the rest of the dialog. -- Curt, WE7U.http://wetnet.net/~we7u APRS Client Capabilities: http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
Curt, OK, thanks for clearing that up. I did try to change fonts, but that didn't really help. I tried changing the size of the text smaller, but no matter what I did, the text did not change size. I noticed it said fixed, so I guess it wasn't going to change no matter what I put in the box. Unfortunately, the most important windows Station, Timing, ect are the ones that I can't access the buttons on. Is FVWM something that I can install in Debian Wheezy or is it something that is built into particular X-Windows interfaces? Thanks for all of the help so far! Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV RPC Electronics, LLC www.rpc-electronics.com From: Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com To: ru...@bogodyn.org ru...@bogodyn.org Cc: Jason Rausch ja...@ke4nyv.com; Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org; Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, ru...@bogodyn.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 07:19:51AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the ja...@ke4nyv.com flavor, containing: Tom, Thanks for explaining that. I can see the mouse behavior change and the change to the bottom status bar, but any menu that was longer than the screen is still off the bottom where I can't access the buttons. Should this change have re-sized the windows? Can't say -- I think you might have to change font sizes or something. I've already exhausted what I know about this option. Others who have actually used it will have to answer this. No, it won't resize. Your only option might be to play with fonts. I remember (from years back) that there were still a few dialogs that were too large for the screen, but I was using FVWM as my window manager and was able to move to another virtual screen to work the rest of the dialog. -- Curt, WE7U. http://wetnet.net/~we7u APRS Client Capabilities: http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Jason Rausch ja...@ke4nyv.com wrote: I noticed it said fixed, so I guess it wasn't going to change no matter what I put in the box. That means it's a fixed width font, not proportional. (IIRC, that's the name of a particular fixed-width font). I'm fighting with networking on my newly acquired BBB at the moment, trying to catch up with you since I plan to run xastir on this one, too. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 10:46:55AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the ja...@ke4nyv.com flavor, containing: Unfortunately, the most important windows Station, Timing, ect are the ones that I can't access the buttons on. Is FVWM something that I can install in Debian Wheezy or is it something that is built into particular X-Windows interfaces? FVWM is a window manager that can certainly be installed in Wheezy, but getting it to run and play nice with the other parts of your desktop environment may be a challenge (I run fvwm on my BSD box, and don't run any part of GNOME there, but on my Ubuntu laptop have not bothered to change from the default window manager (metacity)). https://wiki.debian.org/WindowManager See especially the line at the end that says Window Managers must not be confused with Desktop Environments for additional confusion. See http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/faq/ (question 2.8) for some hints about getting fvwm to work as GNOME's window manager (assuming you're using GNOME). If you're using a different desktop environment, you might have to resort to Google. Unless you luck out and find someone here who has done it on Wheezy. Full-blown desktop environments may be overkill for small-screen systems like you're using (which is why Curt used it on his). But FVWM is pretty old-school (as are Curt and I), so it might not be the perfect fit for you. The main thing that is useful about it for this applicaiton is that you can define a virtual desktop that is larger than your physical screen, and when you move the mouse off the edge of the screen it moves to a different part of the virtual desktop. That can help when a window pops up that is larger than the physical screen --- it'll just occupy a different part of the virtual desktop. From: Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com To: ru...@bogodyn.org ru...@bogodyn.org Cc: Jason Rausch ja...@ke4nyv.com; Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org; Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, [1]ru...@bogodyn.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 07:19:51AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [2]ja...@ke4nyv.com flavor, containing: Tom, Thanks for explaining that. I can see the mouse behavior change and the change to the bottom status bar, but any menu that was longer than the screen is still off the bottom where I can't access the buttons. Should this change have re-sized the windows? Can't say -- I think you might have to change font sizes or something. I've already exhausted what I know about this option. Others who have actually used it will have to answer this. No, it won't resize. Your only option might be to play with fonts. I remember (from years back) that there were still a few dialogs that were too large for the screen, but I was using FVWM as my window manager and was able to move to another virtual screen to work the rest of the dialog. -- Curt, WE7U. [3]http://wetnet.net/~we7u APRS Client Capabilities: [4]http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html References Visible links 1. mailto:ru...@bogodyn.org 2. mailto:ja...@ke4nyv.com 3. http://wetnet.net/~we7u 4. http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html -- Tom RussoKM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
Here's an example font specification that's similar to the one xastir uses: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-*-* in this case the 120 is the size in tenths of a point - i.e. 12pt. It's a courier type font. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
Jason, Thanks, that explains it. Networking was easy on mine. I just plugged into my router and booted it up. DHCP took over. I did notice that if you are already booted up and THEN plug in, it will not find the network. A reboot is required. I gave a cheap wifi USB dongle a try and it didn't work. I'm sure there is some kind of driver/configuration that I am missing. Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV RPC Electronics, LLC www.rpc-electronics.com From: Jason KG4WSV kg4...@gmail.com To: Jason Rausch ja...@ke4nyv.com; Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Cc: Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com; ru...@bogodyn.org ru...@bogodyn.org Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Jason Rausch ja...@ke4nyv.com wrote: I noticed it said fixed, so I guess it wasn't going to change no matter what I put in the box. That means it's a fixed width font, not proportional. (IIRC, that's the name of a particular fixed-width font). I'm fighting with networking on my newly acquired BBB at the moment, trying to catch up with you since I plan to run xastir on this one, too. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
I fired up xfontsel on the BBB. on my old CentOS xastir config, my fonts (which I think are the xastir defaults) are MAPS_LABEL_FONT_TINY:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--8-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_SMALL:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_MEDIUM:-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_LARGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_HUGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--24-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_BORDER:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 but the BBB doesn't have any adobe fonts. I suspect you are getting some random font since the defaults aren't available. Try running xfontsel and find a sane font. If xastir's configuration won't let you get there due to the font problem, run xfontsel from a terminal window, poke around and find a font that looks good (or at least sane), and copy/paste the font spec string into the appropriate place in ~/xastir/config/xastir.cnf -*-clean-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* may be a decent place to start. or maybe someone who actually knows debian can suggest a command to load the adobe fonts? -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Tom Russo wrote: It is possible that Wheezy did the same thing Ubuntu did, unbundling what used to be default fonts in X from the packages that get installed with X. When I first installed Xastir on a laptop that came with Ubuntu 12.04 I discovered this and hated it. But there's a way to get those fonts. Try installing xfonts-100dpi This was one of those things that cheesed me off when I first installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my cracktop. Perhaps Ubuntu learned it from Debian. I seem to remember that OpenSuSE did something like that too some years ago, so maybe it was a more general thing that happened in the apps that these distributions pulled from. -- Curt, WE7U.http://wetnet.net/~we7u APRS Client Capabilities: http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
Jason, Thanks. I ran xfontsel and looked at -*-clean-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* That looks pretty good. I couldn't figure out how to copy the string, so I figured I would just hand type it into xastir.cnf. Once I got into xastir.cnf, I could only find variables for MAPS_LABEL... (Six of these) and ATV_ID_FONT. I'm not sure where I need to put the font string. Also, I attached a couple of pictures of Xastir running on my BBB with the 7 LCD. I added in a Belkin Mini USB hub that came in the mail yesterday. I took the case off and stripped it down. I'm trying to make it as small as possible so I can fit it in a case that I'm going to mill for the whole package. I also have a custom interface board on the way that I designed to have a +5VDC switching supply, two USB ports, one ethernet port and a DB9 female that will interface my radio to the internal TNC-X I am building to put inside of the case as well. Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV RPC Electronics, LLC www.rpc-electronics.com From: Jason KG4WSV kg4...@gmail.com To: Jason Rausch ja...@ke4nyv.com Cc: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts I fired up xfontsel on the BBB. on my old CentOS xastir config, my fonts (which I think are the xastir defaults) are MAPS_LABEL_FONT_TINY:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--8-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_SMALL:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_MEDIUM:-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_LARGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_HUGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--24-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_BORDER:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 but the BBB doesn't have any adobe fonts. I suspect you are getting some random font since the defaults aren't available. Try running xfontsel and find a sane font. If xastir's configuration won't let you get there due to the font problem, run xfontsel from a terminal window, poke around and find a font that looks good (or at least sane), and copy/paste the font spec string into the appropriate place in ~/xastir/config/xastir.cnf -*-clean-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* may be a decent place to start. or maybe someone who actually knows debian can suggest a command to load the adobe fonts? -Jason kg4wsv___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
Tom, Installing xfonts-100dpi helped. I had to go down to a size of 10 to see the buttons on the station config screen. Other screens that are longer, that is still too big. I'm just going to have to find some kind of happy medium, but changing config on certain things is going to be tough, if at all. Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV RPC Electronics, LLC www.rpc-electronics.com From: Tom Russo ru...@bogodyn.org To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Cc: Jason Rausch ja...@ke4nyv.com Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 01:36:33PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the kg4...@gmail.com flavor, containing: I fired up xfontsel on the BBB. on my old CentOS xastir config, my fonts (which I think are the xastir defaults) are MAPS_LABEL_FONT_TINY:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--8-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_SMALL:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_MEDIUM:-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_LARGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_HUGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--24-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_BORDER:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 but the BBB doesn't have any adobe fonts. I suspect you are getting some random font since the defaults aren't available. It is possible that Wheezy did the same thing Ubuntu did, unbundling what used to be default fonts in X from the packages that get installed with X. When I first installed Xastir on a laptop that came with Ubuntu 12.04 I discovered this and hated it. But there's a way to get those fonts. Try installing xfonts-100dpi This was one of those things that cheesed me off when I first installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my cracktop. Perhaps Ubuntu learned it from Debian. http://www.bogodyn.org/blog/?p=37#more-37 -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
Hi .this is one area of Xastir that bugs mefont selection with at least 2 other APRS programs they have in their font section menus for choice of font and size...they will even show any fonts that you have d/l for use in other programs..it takes only a few seconds to change fonts and size.BTW with Adobe fonts you have to pay for Helvetica fonts my thoughts only 73 David VK4BDJ On 04/07/14 07:29, Jason Rausctsd at -*-clean-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* That looks pretty good. I couldn't figure out how to copy the string, so I figured I would just hand type it into xastir.cnf. Once I got into xastir.cnf, I could only find variables for MAPS_LABEL... (Six of these) and ATV_ID_FONT. I'm not sure where I need to put the font string. Also, I attached a couple of pictures of Xastir running on my BBB with the 7 LCD. I added in a Belkin Mini USB hub that came in the mail yesterday. I took the case off and stripped it down. I'm trying to make it as small as possible so I can fit it in a case that I'm going to mill for the whole package. I also have a custom interface board on the way that I designed to have a +5VDC switching supply, two USB ports, one ethernet port and a DB9 female that will interface my radio to the internal TNC-X I am building to put inside of the case as well. Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV RPC Electronics, LLC www.rpc-electronics.com From: Jason KG4WSV kg4...@gmail.com To: Jason Rausch ja...@ke4nyv.com Cc: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts I fired up xfontsel on the BBB. on my old CentOS xastir config, my fonts (which I think are the xastir defaults) are MAPS_LABEL_FONT_TINY:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--8-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_SMALL:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_MEDIUM:-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_LARGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_HUGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--24-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 MAPS_LABEL_FONT_BORDER:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 but the BBB doesn't have any adobe fonts. I suspect you are getting some random font since the defaults aren't available. Try running xfontsel and find a sane font. If xastir's configuration won't let you get there due to the font problem, run xfontsel from a terminal window, poke around and find a font that looks good (or at least sane), and copy/paste the font spec string into the appropriate place in ~/xastir/config/xastir.cnf -*-clean-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* may be a decent place to start. or maybe someone who actually knows debian can suggest a command to load the adobe fonts? -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
On Jul 3, 2014, at 4:54 PM, David djm...@bigpond.com wrote: .BTW with Adobe fonts you have to pay for Helvetica fonts The fonts I mentioned (Adobe Helvetica) have been a part of X11 for years, no $ required. -j ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
After playing with Xastir on my BeagleBone Black for the last week, I'm hooked. However, I'm having some difficulty with navigation on the 7 touch LCD. The main window displays perfectly, but most of the config windows are fixed size and the buttons are off of the bottom of the screen. In a couple of cases, I was able to dock my start bar to the left or right and just barely see enough of the buttons to press them. Some other windows (like timing) are a complete no go. So, is there a way I can change window sizes or at least unlock them so I can resize? I tried to figure out changing the screen resolution in Wheezy, but being new to Linux (Again! It seems like I start all over every time.) I couldn't figure it out. (We're not in Microsoft land anymore!). Of course, I'm afraid that when I do change the resolution everything will be so tiny that it's unusable. Also, for the life of me, I cannot figure out a way to add a shortcut to the desktop to avoid having to open the terminal every time and issue command xastir jst to get it running. Does anyone have any tips on that? Is there a version or config file that makes Xastir more touch screen friendly? Bigger buttons, ect? Thanks! Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV RPC Electronics, LLC www.rpc-electronics.com ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Jason Rausch wrote: After playing with Xastir on my BeagleBone Black for the last week, I'm hooked. However, I'm having some difficulty with navigation on the 7 touch LCD. The main window displays perfectly, but most of the config windows are fixed size and the buttons are off of the bottom of the screen. In a couple of cases, I was able to dock my start bar to the left or right and just barely see enough of the buttons to press them. Some other windows (like timing) are a complete no go. So, is there a way I can change window sizes or at least unlock them so I can resize? I tried to figure out changing the screen resolution in Wheezy, but being new to Linux (Again! It seems like I start all over every time.) I couldn't figure it out. (We're not in Microsoft land anymore!). Of course, I'm afraid that when I do change the resolution everything will be so tiny that it's unusable. Also, for the life of me, I cannot figure out a way to add a shortcut to the desktop to avoid having to open the terminal every time and issue command xastir jst to get it running. Does anyone have any tips on that? Is there a version or config file that makes Xastir more touch screen friendly? Bigger buttons, ect? What's your resolution you're working with? I did some tweaks to the code years ago to work with a 640x480 touch screen I had in my Jeep. If you have that or better, it can be made to work. Look at the top of main.c. Do a search for touch. You'll see some defines there. Uncomment those, then recompile/reinstall to activate them. -- Curt, WE7U.http://wetnet.net/~we7u APRS Client Capabilities: http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
On Jul 2, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: What's your resolution you're working with? 800x480 I did some tweaks to the code years ago to work with a 640x480 touch screen I had in my Jeep. If you have that or better, it can be made to work. Look at the top of main.c. Do a search for touch. You'll see some defines there. Uncomment those, then recompile/reinstall to activate them. This made a big difference when using a little VGA screen I had. Definitely worth trying. Working on mine now, trying to get power and the BBB networking and drivers figured out on the Mac - not working as advertised. - other Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
Curt, The resolution is 800x480. Can I recompile the version I have installed? The install was automated, so I have no idea if I can work with that or start over. Thanks! Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV RPC Electronics, LLC www.rpc-electronics.com From: Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com To: Jason Rausch ja...@ke4nyv.com; Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 8:11 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Jason Rausch wrote: After playing with Xastir on my BeagleBone Black for the last week, I'm hooked. However, I'm having some difficulty with navigation on the 7 touch LCD. The main window displays perfectly, but most of the config windows are fixed size and the buttons are off of the bottom of the screen. In a couple of cases, I was able to dock my start bar to the left or right and just barely see enough of the buttons to press them. Some other windows (like timing) are a complete no go. So, is there a way I can change window sizes or at least unlock them so I can resize? I tried to figure out changing the screen resolution in Wheezy, but being new to Linux (Again! It seems like I start all over every time.) I couldn't figure it out. (We're not in Microsoft land anymore!). Of course, I'm afraid that when I do change the resolution everything will be so tiny that it's unusable. Also, for the life of me, I cannot figure out a way to add a shortcut to the desktop to avoid having to open the terminal every time and issue command xastir jst to get it running. Does anyone have any tips on that? Is there a version or config file that makes Xastir more touch screen friendly? Bigger buttons, ect? What's your resolution you're working with? I did some tweaks to the code years ago to work with a 640x480 touch screen I had in my Jeep. If you have that or better, it can be made to work. Look at the top of main.c. Do a search for touch. You'll see some defines there. Uncomment those, then recompile/reinstall to activate them. -- Curt, WE7U. http://wetnet.net/~we7u APRS Client Capabilities: http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 06:18:41PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the ja...@ke4nyv.com flavor, containing: Curt, The resolution is 800x480. Can I recompile the version I have installed? ?The install was automated, so I have no idea if I can work with that or start over. If I recall correctly, your install was done by running the script at http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/raspbian-xastir-cvsbuild.sh with minor modifications. If so, all that automation was really just running what most of us do by hand on other systems. The script installs all the packages Xastir depends on, then downloads the CVS version of Xastir and builds it. To do what Curt's suggesting means skipping right to the last step after hacking the source --- you don't need to re-run the script, since you already have all the prerequisites. All you need to do to rebuild Xastir with that option is to do the following: - cd ~/src/xastir/src - cd ~/src/xastir/build - ../configure CPPFLAGS=-DLCD640x480TOUCH This is the same as if you had edited main.c and uncommented an ifdef that Curt mentioned, but is a lot simpler than editing code. - make clean make sudo make install Then, launch Xastir as before, but change font sizes so that everything looks OK for you. While the ifdef has 640x480 in its name, there is nothing that actually uses the 640x480 size in the code --- it's just a shorthand for the specific use case Curt was experimenting with when he inserted this code. Ideally, selecting these options should be done in the configure script with an --enable-touchscreen option or something rather than by forcing CPPFLAGS or hand-editing code, but nobody has set it up that way. HTH, T. -- Tom RussoKM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
I forgot to mention the other change I noticed is the mouse pointer behavior. Now, when I click on the map or try to hold down to draw a zoom box, I get the pop up menu. Clicking away from the menu closes it and returns to the map. Is this normal behavior when the touch LCD option is enabled? I'm assuming this is a way to speed up operation when using a touch only interface. Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV RPC Electronics, LLC www.rpc-electronics.com From: Tom Russo ru...@bogodyn.org To: Jason Rausch ja...@ke4nyv.com; Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Cc: Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 9:48 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 06:18:41PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the ja...@ke4nyv.com flavor, containing: Curt, The resolution is 800x480. Can I recompile the version I have installed? ?The install was automated, so I have no idea if I can work with that or start over. If I recall correctly, your install was done by running the script at http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/raspbian-xastir-cvsbuild.sh with minor modifications. If so, all that automation was really just running what most of us do by hand on other systems. The script installs all the packages Xastir depends on, then downloads the CVS version of Xastir and builds it. To do what Curt's suggesting means skipping right to the last step after hacking the source --- you don't need to re-run the script, since you already have all the prerequisites. All you need to do to rebuild Xastir with that option is to do the following: - cd ~/src/xastir/src - cd ~/src/xastir/build - ../configure CPPFLAGS=-DLCD640x480TOUCH This is the same as if you had edited main.c and uncommented an ifdef that Curt mentioned, but is a lot simpler than editing code. - make clean make sudo make install Then, launch Xastir as before, but change font sizes so that everything looks OK for you. While the ifdef has 640x480 in its name, there is nothing that actually uses the 640x480 size in the code --- it's just a shorthand for the specific use case Curt was experimenting with when he inserted this code. Ideally, selecting these options should be done in the configure script with an --enable-touchscreen option or something rather than by forcing CPPFLAGS or hand-editing code, but nobody has set it up that way. HTH, T. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
