Tom, I'm coming to realize that! Don't think I'm quite ready to build just yet... It's been too long. Maybe when I'm back up to speed--- and have a day to lose :-)
norm vk3xci On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 09:29:12AM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > > 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. > > Xastir 2.0.0 is *ANCIENT*. You are much better off pitching that and > building > from source. The current version is 2.0.7, released in April, 2015. 2.0.0 > was released in October 2010. There have been bug fixes and compatibility > updates since then that are important to get. > > One of those was the introduction the icon file, which happened in > October 2012. That's why you don't have it. > > Clearly, whoever created the Xastir package on your system has abandoned > the > package and not kept it current. You will be much better served building > from source. > > > 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 > > > > > -- > 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
