On 11/13/18 12:06 PM, Tom Russo wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 11:41:36AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: >> Curt / Tom, >> >> de Dave KB3EFS >> >> Not sure if it is Xastir or a Gnome on Ubuntu 14.04.04 issue. >> >> As recently as this past summer I was able to send a message to a APRS >> mobile from my laptop via APRS-IS. >> >> Now I can bring up the screen and get the cursor in the correct field >> but when I type a message it does not show up on the screen. >> >> I refreshed Xastir with the included update script this morning; but I >> am not sure of when this function stopped working. > Cannot reproduce this on my own 14.04 system. Current code works fine. > > How are you launching Xastir? > > In the past, I have observed some very strange things if one sets the > LANG or LOCALE variable to "C" in a desktop launcher on Ubuntu, things like > losing the ability to type into dialogs. This used to be the guidance before > Curt changed the code (a few years ago) to do its own internal setting of > locale for purposes of reading the config file, and should no longer be > necessary (and indeed, I have found it to be harmful on my own Ubuntu system > from time to time). > > Try launching Xastir from a terminal window instead of a launcher icon, and > before doing so check your $LANG variable. When mine is left alone at its > default (en_US.UTF-8) Xastir works just fine on Ubuntu 14.04. >
Tom, I am normally launching Xastir from a launcher on my Desktop. In a "Root" terminal checking on the "Lang" setting I get: root@david-Gazelle-Professional:/home/david# locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= root@david-Gazelle-Professional:/home/david# and in a "user" terminal running "xastir" I get: david@david-Gazelle-Professional:~/Desktop$ xastir Built-in map types: gnis USGS GNIS Datapoints pop USGS GNIS Datapoints w/population map APRSdos Maps map WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps pdb PocketAPRS Maps Support for these additional map types has been compiled in: geo Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats allowed) geo URL (Internet maps via libcurl library) geo URL (OpenStreetMaps via libcurl library Copyright OpenStreetMap and contributors, CC-BY-SA) shp ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library) xpm X Pixmap Maps (XPM library) tab MapInfo TAB mid MapInfo MID mif MapInfo MIF ddf Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) s57 International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-57 dgn MicroStation DGN rt1 US Census Bureau TIGER/Line Indexing maps... Finished indexing maps *** Reading WX Alert log files *** Done with WX Alert log files Warning: Name: create_appshell text_output2 Class: XmTextField Character '\260' not supported in font. Discarded. Warning: Name: create_appshell text_output2 Class: XmTextField Character '\260' not supported in font. Discarded. The "Warning" repeats constantly until I exit from Xastir. Like I said, I must have a configuration error on my end. I am not sure when the Warning starts showing up. I'll have to run a few more cycles. 73 Dave KB3EFS _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
