On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, George Karayannis wrote:
...on various clean install Fedora 12 distros (2 native and 2 Virtualbox) [yum install] I have installed xastir but always get the same issue with the cursor. After a little bit of time the xastir window 'grabs' the cursor, that actually reverses and gets a left to right orientation, it cannot operate on any menus and actually stays confined in the window.
I recall people complaining about right-click problems with Fedora 12 recently, but not the exact issue you're reporting. It sounds like perhaps Xorg is missing some mouse clicks and then you're in mouse-click no-man's land after that point. Have you tried doing Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or Ctrl-Alt-F2) to get to a text login, then logging in and killing the Xastir session and restarting Xastir? You can type "Alt-F7" to switch back to your graphical Linux (on OpenSuSE at least, try others 'cuz yours may be on a different console). Another option is to try restarting your window manager if you have that option, but it sounds like you're stuck in the application and can't get out.
On a recent CentOS 5.4 clean install (being a linux noob I was rather impressed with meself both hihihi) xastir compiled nicely and works non-stop on a remote networked box without any such issues. That is also the case with my Ubuntu machines, leaving only F12 wanting.
I run CentOS 5.x on various servers, but there's no Xastir on those machines. One thing you'll find with CentOS is that a lot of the packages are old. It's great for servers where you want years of run-time (seven years of support!), but not always so good for a client machine where you often have to keep a bit more up-to-date.
Btw I have moved from M$ to linux, last year, starting with Ubuntu, and I have recently started digging the red hat variants (mind you I get impressed when I get a nice compile or even that darn wireless on centos hihi) and have thoroughly enjoyed the process, all my office - QTH machines now are either primarily or at the very least dual boot linux, leaving only my APRS igate on XP.
If you like RPM-based distributions (it appears that you do!), you might try OpenSuSE-11.2. I'm running 11.1 and 11.2, both 32-bit and 64-bit variants, on various machines at work and home. My kids run 11.2 as well, and they're into gaming so always want the latest-latest. Xastir runs great on OpenSuSE. You could stick to the *buntu variants also. -- Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
