On Friday 01 February 2008 16:51:52 Innis Cunningham wrote: > Hi Keith > ---------------------------------------- > > > Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:55:33 -0800 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Flightgear-users] Changing aircraft > > > > I am new new Flightgear but not to virtual, or real flying. I am having > > no luck in figuring out Flightgear though, it seems quirky. I try to go > > full screen and it crashes my desktop (PCLinuxOS). I can't even figure > > out how to change aircraft from the default one. > > I have had the fullscreen crash myself. The way I found to get around it > was to start in fullscreen. For this you need to start FG from a > terminal.This will also allow you to change aircraft. Its awhile since I > ran from a terminal but I think the commands are something like this FGFS > aircraft=(the A/C you want) geometry=fullscreen > > > Am I just missing something here? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Keith
You might also consider using one of the flighgear laucher apps like fgrun. This will give yo a GUI for controlling the startup command line parms passed to FlightGrear. This will allow you to select aircraft, airports and a whole host of other settings in a user friendly way. Hal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
