NAME¶

Xastir - graphical application that interfaces HAM radio and APRS(tm) internet access to real-time mapping software.

DESCRIPTION¶

This manual page briefly documents the Xastir commands.

SYNOPSIS¶

xastir [options] Language ...

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.

SEE ALSO¶

The program is documented fully by help-English.dat, available via the HELP menu option in Xastir, plus the various README and INSTALL text files that come with the program. Also see <http://xastir.org> and the Documentation Wiki there.

Xastir is a program for APRS(tm)...

APRS[tm] is a Trademark of Bob Bruninga, his home page is at "http://www.aprs.org/aprs.html"

COPYING¶

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

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written by Jose <hi8gn@amsat.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).