Popularizing PosChengband on reddit

[TheQuest]

Made a nice-looking setup on my Linux machine for best experience while playing PosChengband, and posted it on reddit. People seems to like it

[HugoVirtuoso]

Made a nice-looking setup on my Linux machine for best experience while playing PosChengband, and posted it on reddit. People seems to like it

Great! Another way to get people into PosChengband!

[veb_yw]

It worked!

Made a nice-looking setup on my Linux machine for best experience while playing PosChengband, and posted it on reddit. People seems to like it

Hi. I just started PosChengband, my first RL. I posted this in your reddit thread:

"Hi I just started Poschengband out of curiosity from your screenshot. Except for the windows, it's been great! How do you keep the location for the windows from game to game? Whenever I start a game, I have to rearrange all the windows again as they all start from the centre of the screen. I have Manjaro i3 and config for Poschengband as "floating enable". Do you tweak config or the game files? Thanks! "

I should add I already changed "floating enable" to default tiled setup for i3 and that didn't work also. Also tried the examples from the Github readme:

"To add additional terminal windows, you need to specify sub-options. You can
configure, from the command line, a strip of terminals on the right hand side
of the screen, or on the bottom of the screen, or both.

For example:
$ ./poschengband -mgcu -uCrusher -- -right 57x26,*"

which did not work also.

Thanks!

[TheQuest]

"Hi I just started Poschengband out of curiosity from your screenshot. Except for the windows, it's been great! How do you keep the location for the windows from game to game? Whenever I start a game, I have to rearrange all the windows again as they all start from the centre of the screen. I have Manjaro i3 and config for Poschengband as "floating enable". Do you tweak config or the game files? Thanks! "

Yes, if you do it straight out of the box with i3, you will end up with all windows stacked, or centered, depending on your default i3 config.
What you need to do is to tell i3 what mode to toggle before opening poschengband, and to do it you have add this to your i3 config file:

#Open specific applications in floating mode
for_window [class="Angband"] floating enable

And here's my launch script for the game

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" == "" ]; then
    echo 'Play which character?'
    ls ~/.angband/PosChengband/save | grep 1000.* | sed 's/1000.//'
else


   export ASAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH='/usr/bin/llvm-symbolizer'

    
   # FONTS (get a lit by running xlsfonts | grep terminus)
   export ANGBAND_X11_FONT_0='-xos4-terminus-bold-r-normal--14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1'
   export ANGBAND_X11_FONT_1='-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1'
   export ANGBAND_X11_FONT_2='-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1'
   export ANGBAND_X11_FONT_3='-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1'
   export ANGBAND_X11_FONT_4='-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1'
   export ANGBAND_X11_FONT_5='-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1'
   export ANGBAND_X11_FONT_6='-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1'
   export ANGBAND_X11_FONT_7='-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1'



   # WINDOWS
   # main window position
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_X_0=400
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_Y_0=20
   export ANGBAND_X11_ROWS_0=61
   export ANGBAND_X11_COLS_0=138


   # LEFT PANE TERMINALS
   # term 1 position
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_X_1=20
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_Y_1=20
   export ANGBAND_X11_ROWS_1=30
   export ANGBAND_X11_COLS_1=60

   # term 2 position
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_X_2=20
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_Y_2=400
   export ANGBAND_X11_ROWS_2=30
   export ANGBAND_X11_COLS_2=60

   # term 3 position
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_X_3=20
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_Y_3=780
   export ANGBAND_X11_ROWS_3=30
   export ANGBAND_X11_COLS_3=60


   # RIGHT PANE TERMINALS
   # term 4 position
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_X_4=1530
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_Y_4=20
   export ANGBAND_X11_ROWS_4=30
   export ANGBAND_X11_COLS_4=60

   # term 5 position
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_X_5=1530
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_Y_5=400
   export ANGBAND_X11_ROWS_5=30
   export ANGBAND_X11_COLS_5=60

   # term 6 position
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_X_6=1530
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_Y_6=780
   export ANGBAND_X11_ROWS_6=30
   export ANGBAND_X11_COLS_6=60


   # MESSAGE PANE
   # term 7 position
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_X_7=402
   export ANGBAND_X11_AT_Y_7=900
   export ANGBAND_X11_ROWS_7=20
   export ANGBAND_X11_COLS_7=183



   #RUN GAME
   ./poschengband -- -u$1 -- -n8

fi

[veb_yw]

Wow!

Thanks! I wasn't expecting a customised script! I will try it out.