Thread: DOSBox 0.65 ... ftw
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2009-06-21 , 22:25
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Originally Posted by ukki View Post
Run rbox from xterm and see if Dosbox says it's using the new config when you startup a game. Can you do vice versa then and copy the new config to /usr/share/dosbox/dosbox.conf and see if it works from there? Maybe Dosbox fails to use the config when given in the commandline (with the spaces in the filename) and then just uses defaults + the game specific settings.
I did what you said and ran rbox from xterm. If /usr/share/dosbox directory is not there it shows it is using the config file from /home/user/apps. And if /usr/share/dosbox directory is there, it uses the config file from that directory. And here's a strange thing,...the D-Pad worked fine. So I thought to myself that maybe it only works when running rbox from xterm. Then I tried running RubyBox from the menu with /usr/share/dosbox directory removed, and lo and behold the D-Pad now works! WTF?! Maybe RubyBox just needed a good xterm session to get its butt in gear. I don't know, but now everything seems to work properly.

FWIW, I did get the D-Pad one time (and one time only) to not function when running rbox from xterm (with the /usr/share/dosbox directory removed). Xterm showed that a regular config file was not loaded at all, but the one from the .rbox directory was.