Re: Xplanet works for a while then quits

[Csahok Zoltan]

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
>