[Freeciv] Re: Trouble Staring CIV

[William Mulvihill <will.mulvihill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can answer the first question.

Press CONTROL-ALT-F7 to get back to Xwindows/GNOME.

Its funny that you ask this because my method of playing freeciv is to 
load up on of those text logins, start the server over there, and then, 
of course, use Xwindows to run the client.  It's helpful if Xwindows 
crashes (what?  that would never happen!  ;) )
-Will Mulvihill
On Friday, May 11, 2001, at 11:13 AM, Kevin Stokes wrote:

>   Thanks for everybody's help.   The issue was that I had started the 
> game
> running from the server before I had the client running.  Two things 
> would
> have made things much more clear:
>
> 1.) If the message 'Connection Refused' were changed to:
>
> Connection Refused: (no server found?  See README file for info)
>
> 2.) If there were a 'quick start' for laying out the steps for 
> starting a
> single player game.  IE:
>
> a.) Open a terminal window.  Type /usr/games/civserver
>    1.) Create badguy1
>    2.) Create badguy2
>
> b.) Start Civ client from the GNOME start menu.  Open connection.
>
> c.)  Go back to the terminal window and type 'start' to begin the game.
>
> d.)  Go back to the client and play the game.
>
> Since I'm obviously a linux newbie, I have two questions which maybe
> somebody could help me with:
> 1.) I can use CNTL-ALT-F2 to get a text mode login from GNOME, but how 
> do I
> get back to the desktop after doing that?
>
> 2.)  WHenever a window or message box comes up, I have to place it.   
> This
> gets tiring really fast when playing freeciv.  Can I tell GNOME to just 
> put
> the window up without making me choose a spot for it?
>
> -Kevin
>
>
>
>
>
> QUIT
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