[Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts

[Jason Rausch]

Jason,

Thanks.  I ran xfontsel and looked at -*-clean-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*  That looks pretty good.  I couldn't figure out how to copy the string, so I figured I would just hand type it into xastir.cnf.  Once I got into xastir.cnf, I could only find variables for MAPS_LABEL... (Six of these) and ATV_ID_FONT.  I'm not sure where I need to put the font string.

Also, I attached a couple of pictures of Xastir running on my BBB with the 7" LCD.  I added in a Belkin Mini USB hub that came in the mail yesterday.  I took the case off and stripped it down.  I'm trying to make it as small as possible so I can fit it in a case that I'm going to mill for the whole package.  I also have a custom interface board on the way that I designed to have a +5VDC switching supply, two USB ports, one ethernet port and a DB9 female that will interface my radio to the internal TNC-X I am building to put inside of the case as well.
 
Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV
RPC Electronics, LLC
www.rpc-electronics.com


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 From: Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com>
To: Jason Rausch <jason at ke4nyv.com> 
Cc: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org> 
Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
 

I fired up xfontsel on the BBB.  on my old CentOS xastir config, my
fonts (which I think are the xastir defaults)  are

MAPS_LABEL_FONT_TINY:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--8-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
MAPS_LABEL_FONT_SMALL:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
MAPS_LABEL_FONT_MEDIUM:-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
MAPS_LABEL_FONT_LARGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
MAPS_LABEL_FONT_HUGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--24-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
MAPS_LABEL_FONT_BORDER:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1


but the BBB doesn't have any adobe fonts.  I suspect you are getting
some random font since the defaults aren't available.

Try running xfontsel and find a sane font.  If xastir's configuration
won't let you get there due to the font problem, run xfontsel from a
terminal window, poke around and find a font that looks good (or at
least sane), and copy/paste the font spec string into the appropriate
place in ~/xastir/config/xastir.cnf

-*-clean-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

may be a decent place to start.

or maybe someone who actually knows debian can suggest a command to
load the adobe fonts?


-Jason
kg4wsv