On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 06:20:09PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > I can confirm what Duffy says - I did a CVS install yesterday on FC6, > and it appeared as about 1"x1 1/2" window on my desktop initially > (screen res set at 1600x1200 on a 19" monitor). But, as he says, > after you resize and close it, it will maintain that size afterward.
Sure enough. That's very odd, the default values of screen height and width are 1 and 61. Bizarre choices, I don't ever remember seeing xastir start up with those dimensions except during the very brief period where the -geometry option was added and broken. But clearly in xa_config.c these are the default values used if SCREEN_HEIGHT and SCREEN_WIDTH are not found in the config file (as they would not be on the very first run). >From what I can see in CVS, this change happened in revision 1.17 of xa_config.c, where the defaults changed from 640x480 to 61x1. That was in 2002! I'm amazed there haven't been more comments about that. > On 11/8/06, Amateur Radio WB8NUT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Tom and all, > > > >It's 1.7.1 - but I was also running 1.8.x on Ubuntu/Kubuntu 6.10 native > >installs and it does the same thing - starts for the first time as a > >little box. It's no big deal, after you resize it, it restarts at a > >normal size from there on out. But if you are not expecting it, it's > >could be easy for a first-timer to miss - hence the note. > > > >Duffy > > > >Tom Russo wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:31:09PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron > >collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > >> > >>> I tried this method and it works very well. > >>> > >>> Go to www.vmware.com and download the free VMWare Player. Install on > >>> your windows machine. > >>> > >>> Also on the VMWare site, download a virtual machine for Mepis Linux, > >>> Ubuntu Linux, or Kubuntu. > >>> > >>> > >> [...] > >> > >> I just read through your write-up about this on the wiki. You note that > >> the first time you start xastir, it starts up with a tiny window. > >> > >> This was a bug in a relatively old version of xastir --- what version of > >> xastir are you getting by doing the apt-get? It should not happen with > >any > >> of the 1.8.x versions, and probably only happened in one or two of the > >1.7.x > >> versions. > >> > >> > > > > > >-- > >"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run > >away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet > >it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. > >Never run away from anything. Never!" -- Winston Churchill > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Xastir mailing list > >Xastir@xastir.org > >http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > Xastir@xastir.org > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- 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 "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
