[Freeciv] Re: Playing on low resolution

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:59:48PM -0800, Oren Laskin wrote:
> 
> At Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:53:36 -0800,
> Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:45:14PM -0800, Oren Laskin wrote:
> > > I have a laptop that can do 640x480 (actually 1024x480 but that's
> > > another story), and I'm trying to use the freeciv gtk client however
> > > it is larger than the available screen.  When I shrink to 480 I lose
> > > the status and a lot of critical windows.  Is there some method to
> > > play at lower resolutions or am I stuck?
> > You could always detach all the windows, (minimap, status, chat) and
> > just leave the map on top.
> 
> Thanks that helped a lot.  I didn't know about the capability to
> detach the windows.
> 
> > Moving to a smaller tileset would also help.
> 
> I'll try one of the 20x20 ones soon.  But the 30x30 seems to work ok
> for now.

Also note that various translations (german for example) have bigger
strings and so make the windows larger.

        Raimar

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