xastir(1)

xastir1

Graphical application that interfaces ham radio and aprs(tm) internet access to real-time mapping software.

Usage

xastir [options] Language ...

Overview

This manual page briefly documents the Xastir commands.

Options

The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with one dash (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-c /path/dir

Specify an optional config directory. Defaults to ~/.xastir

-f callsign

Track callsign

-i

Use a private colormap

-geometry WxH+x+y

Set Window Geometry/Position

-l Language

Xastir remembers the language once you set it the first time.

-m

Deselect Maps

-p

Disable popups

-t

Internal SIGSEGV handler enabled

-v Level

Set the debug level

-?

Show summary of options available.

Available languages

Current choices are:
Dutch English French German Italian Portuguese Spanish.

Usage is:

xastir -i -v 2047 -l Dutch &

Signals

SIGINT, SIQQUIT, SIGTERM Cause Xastir to exit.
SIGHUP Causes a restart.
SIGUSR1 Causes a snapshot to occur.

Network ports

Enable these ports on this menu: "Interface->Enable Server Ports"

TCP:2023 Bidirectional TCP port for clients to connect to. Requires login if client will be transmitting.
UDP:2023 Unidirectional UDP input port for clients to inject packets. See the documentation for the format.

Copying

Copyright (C) 1999,2000 Frank Giannandrea KC2GJS
Copyright (C) 2000-2023 The Xastir Group

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0
  6. 8–9
  7. 10
  8. 11–12
  9. 13

-? since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -c since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -f since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -geometry since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -i since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -l since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -m since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -p since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -t since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -v since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Author

This manual page was written by Jose <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From xastir 2.2.0-1+b2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.