[FOSS-GPS] Foxtrotgps shows sometimes openstreetmap.org maps on screen

[David Bannon]

Fred, my opinion may not be very valuable as I have not used Foxtrot for 
some time. But, two suggestions :

* Firstly, by running a program like this as root, you may have caused a 
whole lot of files in fred's space to be owned by root. When you then 
run as fred, you find that fred cannot write to those files. Its just 
about never a good idea to run a user space GUI app as root.

* Second, from memory, gpsd runs as the user gpsd. For fred to be able 
to read gpsd's data, fred probably needs to be in the gpsd group. Can 
you check that please, maybe look to see if there is a gpsd user and 
group, if so, is fred also a member of the gpsd group ? They these 
commands as user fred -

$> cat /etc/group | gpsd <enter>

....

$> groups <enter>

David


On 15/11/23 05:01, Fred Mobach via FOSS-GPS wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since years I'm using foxtrotgps to show openstreetmap.org maps with my added
> POI's on screen to have an overview of those POI's in a centain environment.
>
> All of a sudden moment the maps were not shown when running in a common user
> environment while the same programm running under root shown the maps in the
> normal way. What this problem initiated is unknown to me.
>
> To shown the problem the attachments shows the diffenrences:
> - left the screen running under root,
> - middle the configuration panel,
> - right the screen running under user fred.
>
> Note the error message No GPSD found: that missing device get the maps again
> unde user fred.
>
> So my question is how to get those maps under user fred displayed again.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fred
>
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