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CF: Crossfire and display size

"Mark Wedel" on  wrote...
|  Question:  With the standard X11 in the server in 0.94.3, what bugs
|  are there that makes the game unplayable with that old interface?  If
|  none, then I see very little reason to complain - just stick at that
|  until the new client/server has been demonstrated to be reliable
|  enough for you.
| 

My biggest problem with the  X11 server (and standard client)
for crossfire is the clients width.

I like to paly crossfire at home but as I play on a Linux machine
(PC display - 16 bit color X server) I am limited to a display
of   800x600 pixels.

Anyone have a good client I can use for a smaller display?

The default crossfire client and the X11 server client both use a
display which is about 900 to 1000 pixels accross. Though lots of height
space is available.

This means that when fighting I have to move the window to see the 
inventory, but then when talking and identifing I have to pick up the
window and move to to see the whole messages area.

This is a real drag (pardon the pun). I also tried to use seperate
windows but that seems to require seting their positions everytime I
start up and I have found no usfull layout so I can see all of them
easilly. The individual windows also do not resize that well, Resize
whould be especially usefull on the messages window.

I was hoping that with clients being develops I could tell the client
to use different (smaller) fonts and rearrange things for better play on
the smaller display (more height less width).

  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/
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