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Is it by any chance an OS2008 Angband? If so, thank you thank you thank you!!!

My experiences of angband on os2008.

App manager asks for hildon-libs0 which is a nono.

So i do dpkg with ignore deps option and edit dpkg/status to remove dependency.

The .desktop isn't working so I comment dbus line so it works and minimising doesn't work.

OK here's a OS2008 compiled curses version that launches from menu. Should run fine on any N8X0. It doesn't close the xterm on program exit, but you can do that by clicking on "X" in windowed mode, or hitting menu key in fullscreen mode then selecting window-close.

http://pupnik.de/angband_3.0.9-1_curses_armel.deb

(edit) You may have problems if you have a previous angband installed- so remove old version first and purge /usr/share/angband.

Also if you want to give angband some command line options do something like

mv /usr/bin/angband /usr/bin/angbandbin
then create a executeable shellscript called /usr/bin/angband and add your favorite commandline options.

(edit) it would not do to forget to mention Josep Torra's excellent port of Nethack again here! Updated for OS2008...
http://n770galaxy.blogspot.com/2007/...n-nethack.html

Oh crap! I'm a tool!

I deserve to be shot just on general principle.

I got so excited over this, I immediately downloaded it from my tablet.

So I open the file in the tablet and choose okay to install.

It said that the installation went fine and it's in my extra's menu thingie because it's got a graphic of Xterm next to it.

But when I fire it up, I just go to a blank Xterm screen that's all white and fluffy.

Someone smack me upside my head and tell me why I don't deserve to live anymore!

So how did I screw this up?

I've been waiting since November for this to be released!

Sorry, don't know why that sometimes happens. Forget about the menu launcher for now. Start 'angband' from xterm with a small font and wear magnifying glasses.

* Angband wants an 80x24 screen.
* With osso-xterm-0.14.mh3 we can not get an 80x24 (25) screen with 16-pt font

With osso-xterm-0.14.mh3 You can get a 77x25 char screen by installing and selecting font dejavu-sans-mono 16 and selecting bold, then manually disabling toolbar after startup of osso-xterm. To see your current terminal 'resolution', type stty -a (edit, sometimes the menu launcher will still crashor it.. so i hit fullscreen right after the xterm comes up and before angband starts)

If we could disable the scrollbar and toolbar before menu launch, we could have a fullscreen 80x25 terminal for Angband.

With osso-xterm-0.14.mh3, you can not disable the scrollbar (though there is a setting for it in gconf)

With osso-xterm-0.14.mh3, you can disable the toolbar after manual xterm startup but osso-xterm FAILS to load your preferred settings from the gconf database on next start. So it is impossible to launch Angband from menu with disabled toolbar.

Perhaps Joni Valtanen, the porter of osso-xterm could fix the gconf settings someday?

If someone else figures out how to disable scrollbar and toolbar on osso-xterm-0.14.mh3 please post here. Thanks!

(edit) Turns out osso-xterm is only available as mh3, yet they have made EIGHT NEW BUILDS (apparently up to mh11 now) with bugfixes and feature additions WITHOUT RELEASING ANYTHING. ... NICE

Anyway you can set font size to 14 in gconf editor then launch angband with

angband -- -b

and get a decently playable 97x28 screen...



(edit2) Xterm Toolbar toggle fixed. Whitescreen (hopefully!) fixed with new osso-xterm build. http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=18388

(edit3) New angband .deb is up - Addison please try it with the new Xterm -HINT- hit ctrl-R to refresh screen after font size change

(edit4) New angband .deb is up - NOW with NO SCROLLBAR!

(edit5) sometimes the menu launcher will still crash.. so i hit fullscreen right after the xterm comes up and before angband starts :/

(edit6) New angband .deb is up - NOW with no more crashes and FULLSCREEN at startup!

Argh! Permission to swear excessively sir?!?!?!!

I'm getting packages that are missing with this:
hildon-libs0
libsdl-ttf2.0-0

A Google search came up with stating that there's only a 2007 version.

Then manic depression sets it.........

I haven't got time for this Mickey Mouse tease of yours ArnimS!

This will make me happy for life, but I can't get your latest bugger to install without those dependencies.

Any chance you could post those on your website when you have the time to do so?

Oh, and seriously huge karma points for getting this released for us!

Dude, you have amazing talent!

Dawnmist's SDL build requires those packages. The curses version that I made does not.

Well, you can use rxvt... I compiled it with basically no trouble. Of course, then it's not hildonized, no on-screen keyboard... but it works.

If anyone wants the binary, say so, and I'll dig it up.

Also, if you can disable the toolbar after the terminal starts by gconf tweak, why not use the launcher to run a script like:

Done, in latest deb package. http://pupnik.de/angband_3.0.9-1_curses_armel.deb

Oh dear Lord.

It is with great embarrassment and shame that I come crawling back here to say that I just can't seem to get this to work.

I've tried three different versions, including the one from your last post just before this one.

I've also updated X-term along with the libvte-common and libvte4 dependencies, but can't get anything to show for it.

If I run Angband from the menu thingie, it loads up X-term, does something or perhaps hangs for two seconds, then closes out leaving me with nothing to look at.

If I run it in X-term using this command like you said to:
angband -- -b

I get this garbage of unhappiness.


I believe it says "Error opening terminal: xterm."

I'm also not understanding the whole
In X-term, from Tools, Settings, Font... I can choose between 12 pt and 16 pt, but I'm not seeing anything for the 14 you're asking on this.



Dude, maybe you should just finally give up on me...

I'm tired of disappointing you.