On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 06:15:30PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > I would guess the .desktop goes in the root of you home directory > (/home/UID). Don't know about the icon. You could make one :)
The .desktop file more likely goes in the "Desktop" subdirectory of your home directory. At least, that's where normal gnome desktops expect them. There is an icon installed by the Xastir build. It'll be in the share directory that got installed. If you used a default prefix in a source build of Xastir, that'll be /usr/local/share/xastir/symbols/icon.png. If a package-installed build from a repo, it'd be in /usr/share instead of /usr/local/share. On my Ubuntu laptop, the Xastir.desktop file I created is: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Xastir Type=Application Terminal=false Exec=xastir Comment=APRS Icon=/usr/local/share/xastir/symbols/icon.png There are old threads that might tell you to set LOCALE here, but those are obsolete and bad advice. At least one user (me) found that doing that in the .desktop file caused Xastir to stop responding to keyboard events in dialog boxes after a little while. Motif bug. > > On May 18, 2016, at 6:01 PM, Norm McMillan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Good morning, > > > > trolled around a few threads re starting xastir from a terminal or from a > > .desktop. At the moment I'm starting it from a terminal, which of course > > stays open behind the application. > > Writing a .desktop is trivial... but > > > > Where do I put it? > > Where do I find the icon? > > > > I'm back to linux after 10 or so years in the Windows commercial world, so > > please excuse the noob questions. Last was kubuntu 6.06 on a Toshiba A10 > > laptop! > > > > norm > > vk3xci > > _______________________________________________ > > Xastir mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- 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 [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
