David, Tom, Thanks for the help. It's all coming back out the way it went in... slowly :-) No sign of icon.png for xastir on build 2.0.0-2.1ubuntu1 but no matter. Launching from the main menu with the default icon.
I may get back to it when I get the rest of the Ham Radio stuff set up norm vk3xci On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
