Controlling window size for subwindows?

[fruviad]

I decided to try to rune ID feature branch, and I'm invoking the game as:

./angband -mx11 -- -n5

This opens 5 windows: the main window, and 4 additional windows titled "Term-1" through "Term-4".

The problem I'm seeing is that the windows for Term-1 and Term-2 are a decent size, but any additional Term windows are about 25% the size of the main window. These windows and their contents are shrunken, making them nearly illegible.

This occurs for any terminal beyond Term-2, even if I increase "-n9". I haven't tested beyond that.

I'm running on an Ubuntu 14.04 system (upgraded ~12 hours ago from 12.04.) It's a laptop with an additional monitor.

I've repro'd this with Unity, Metacity, and Compiz.

All of my other subwindow experience has been with a subwindows within a single window, so I don't know whether the problem is limited to the rune ID branch.

Has anyone else seen this, and discovered a way to control the sizes of Term-3+?

[Nick]

There are two ways to fix this, one of which seems to be currently broken:

1. There are environment variables ANGBAND_X11_FONT_n, for n the terminal number; if you set that variable to a font size, you will get that font in that terminal - so if you are using bash as your shell,

   export "ANGBAND_X11_FONT_4=9x15"

   will give 9x15 font in terminal 4.
2. There ia a file in your user directory (usually ~/.angband/Angband/) x11-settings.prf which keeps track of your settings (so will remember your window positions if you move them), and can be edited directly. Sadly, that seems to be broken currently - I will file a bug.

If you are interested, there is a sample script (for csh, but can be adapted to other shells) for simple running at the top of src/main-x11.c.

[fruviad]

Originally Posted by Nick

There are two ways to fix this, one of which seems to be currently broken:

1. There are environment variables ANGBAND_X11_FONT_n, for n the terminal number; if you set that variable to a font size, you will get that font in that terminal - so if you are using bash as your shell,

   export "ANGBAND_X11_FONT_4=9x15"

   will give 9x15 font in terminal 4.
2. There ia a file in your user directory (usually ~/.angband/Angband/) x11-settings.prf which keeps track of your settings (so will remember your window positions if you move them), and can be edited directly. Sadly, that seems to be broken currently - I will file a bug.

If you are interested, there is a sample script (for csh, but can be adapted to other shells) for simple running at the top of src/main-x11.c.

Thank you!!! The environment variable does fix it for me!