[Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts

[David]

Hi  .....this is one area of Xastir that bugs me....font selection
with at least 2 other APRS programs they have in their font section menus
for choice of font and size...they will even show any fonts that you 
have d/l
for use in other programs..it takes only a few seconds to change fonts 
and size.....BTW with Adobe fonts you have to pay for Helvetica fonts

my thoughts only

73 David VK4BDJ






On 04/07/14 07:29, Jason Rausctsd 
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 
________________________________ 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
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