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Hi Curt, Rick,<br><br>The problem seems to be that the GPS/ and Online/ directories do not expand. I can click on them to select and not select, but they don't do anything. Right clicking does nothing. Unclicking and re-clicking the Expand button doesn't do anything other than pop the little square's belly-button in and out. And for some reason the entire window kind of hops down the screen a quarter of an inch with each button click, but I think that's probably a KDE bug (I'm running KDE 4, which is kind of buggy). <br><br>Starting Xastir from a user shell I see a ton of messages about character \260 not being supported in font and being discarded. Create_appshell text_output2 is the Name, and XmTextField is the Class. But nothing displayed when I play with the map chooser.<br><br>If I choose Help->About Xastir, it tells me something about libcurl, and libcurl is loaded on the system. Actually the file is /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4. I tried making a sym link for libcurl.so (without the .4), but no change. "whereis libcurl" does find the sym link, so the path is good. Wget is also loaded.<br><br>The Internet Map timeout is 120 seconds, which should be way long enough. I'm on a cable modem here. What is the URL for the Tiger maps, so I can try to ping them?<br><br>I do notice that there is a display of "loading weather alert maps" that shows up in the lower left corner of the display whenever I do stuff. It lasts for about 10 seconds, and then my station call sign is displayed. I tried zooming out to cover basically the whole country, figuring *somewhere* there must be some weather to be alerted to, but nothing shows up.<br><br>What next?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Greg KO6TH<br><br><br>> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:40:27 -0700<br>> From: archer@eskimo.com<br>> To: aprssig@tapr.org<br>> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Help with XASTIR maps<br>> <br>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Rick Green wrote:<br>> <br>> >> What else do I need to do? What's the simple recipe for getting maps to <br>> >> work?<br>> ><br>> > 'GPS/' and 'Online/' are directories, not maps. Check the 'expand <br>> > directories' box at the top, and within the 'Online' directory, you will find <br>> > 'Online/Tigermap.geo'<br>> <br>> Also check that either "wget" or "libcurl" are loaded on the system,<br>> whichever that Xastir binary was compiled to use. Check your<br>> internet map timeout number in Configure->Timing as well, and check<br>> the Xterm that you start Xastir from for any error messages that<br>> might give you clues.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer><br>> APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org><br>> Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown<br>> Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.<br>> The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!"<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> aprssig mailing list<br>> aprssig@tapr.org<br>> https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig<br><br /><hr />Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/' target='_new'>Get it now.</a></body>
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