Re: Xplanet works for a while then quits

[Thomas Beierlein]

Hi Jack, hi Zoli,

I agree with Zoli that you should drop the '--output
xplanet_image.jpeg' part of your command. That way you will no longer
create the massive load of old data in your Trash folder. 

By the way find below the command I use to start xplanet here:

        xplanet -window -config default  -wait 4 -longitude 13
        -latitude 51 -projection azimutal

73, de Tom 


Am Sat, 18 Dec 2021 09:09:31 +0100
schrieb Csahok Zoltan <ha5cqz@gmx.com>:

> Hi Jack,
> 
> Tlf surely does not create or move any files into a trash folder.
> Where is your trash folder located? Could you give the list of most
> recent files from it?
> (I mean "ls -ltr trash | tail")
> 
> The way Xplanet is called saves the current view in a JPG file.
> I think the typical use case would be no to save the view but rather
> to show it live on screen, i.e. omitting the -output option.
> 
> Your Xplanet command overwrites xplanet_image.jpeg each 10 second
> > xplanet -latitude 35.0 -longitude -120.00 -wait 10 -output
> > xplanet_image.jpeg -fontsize 16 -config config-TLF -geometry
> > 1200x600 -projection peters  
> unless there are further relevant options in config-TLF file.
> What is the content of config-TLF?
> 
> 
> 73,
> Zoli
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 09:41:33PM -0800, John Lindley wrote:
> > Tom-
> >
> > Thanks for looking at the code. Here is the xplanet command kine:
> >
> > xplanet -latitude 35.0 -longitude -120.00 -wait 10 -output
> > xplanet_image.jpeg -fontsize 16 -config config-TLF -geometry
> > 1200x600 -projection peters
> >
> > I think neither TLF or Xplanet are the problem.
> >
> > I am running Ubuntu 18.04. I start Xplanet from the gnome terminal
> > and run TLF from Xterm, and the old files from both go to trash.
> >
> > In looking at the contents of the trash folder, There are all types
> > of text files there (like logs, cabillo files, etc,) from many
> > months ago. I only use this computer in the shack. The text files
> > are small, and do not use much space. However, the xplanet images
> > are large and a new one every 10 seconds rapidly filled the folder.
> > It looks as if files have been going to trash for quite some time,
> > but were not a problem until I had lots of large files
> >
> > As I have time, I have been reviewing all the config and setup
> > files I can find but have not identified the trouble maker yet. TLF
> > works fine without xplanet, so this is not a 1st priority task.
> > Just annoying.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> > Jack W6YOY
> >  
> 



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