Thanks to the enthusiasm of Lee Bengston, there is a new pre-built Xastir virtual machine running the latest version of Xubuntu (Ubuntu with the lightweight Xfce desktop) available.
Lee was motivated to create the machine and sent it to me for testing, and I updated it with the very latest VMware tools available in VMware Workstation. This means that as of this new virtual machine, it is no longer necessary to do strange things to get the desktop resized to match your window --- the newest VMware tools "autofit" the desktop to whatever window you have as soon as you log in to the VM. Thereafter, it will autofit again if you resize the window. This takes at least a little hassle out of using it. Thanks once again to Jason Winningham and John Ronan, this VM zipfile is available for download from a site on either side of the Atlantic. Please visit <http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:VMware> for download locations and instructions on how to use the virtual machine. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "It's so simple to be wise: just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." --- Sam Levinson _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
