[ gpsdrive ] [gpsdrive] Screensize on eeepc?

[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)]

On Sonntag 27 April 2008, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Sunday 27 April 2008 21:33, Markus Bergholz wrote:
> > oke, if i use this mod for starting gpsdrive,it doesn't work very well...
>
> Same here - GPSdrive version 2.10pre4, Slackware 12.0, KDE 3.5.7, on a
> Fujitsu ST4110 tablet (1024 vertical, 768 horizontal).
>
> The -r and -s options appear to make no difference at all to the size of
> the window GPSdrive opens.
>
> I managed to cope with the "undefined reference to 'get_mapnik_imagedata'"
> problem when compiling it by commenting out the line in map_handler.c, but
> now can't really use it because most of the application window is hidden
> behind my virtual keyboard near the bottom of the screen, or behind the KDE
> status bar below that.

isn't there the -g or --geometry option ?

> Additional question - where / how do I tell GPSdrive where to find my GPS
> device now?  The last version of GPSdrive I used worked with gpsd, but this
> one seems to want to drive things on its own, but "gpsdrive --help" doesn't
> tell me how to tell it where to find the GPS receiver.

GpsDrive should try to connect to a gpsd by default.