Graham, There are a couple of things you can do to improve the look of Quackle on an Eee. First, if you right click on the toolbar and uncheck# both File and Move, the toolbar will go away, freeing up a good bit of room. Everything in the toolbars is accessible from the menus anyway. Then, you can shrink the size of the font with qtconfig, which you probably have if you built Qt4. I think I set it to 6pt, which is very small, but still legible. I don't currently have Quackle running on my Eee, but I have in the past, and I've set it up for someone else. I made a couple additional changes that I haven't committed to our cvs repository. I think I removed the Move: <position> <word> etc text, shrank the rack's tiles a bit, and changed the layout of the bag display so that it said A9 BB CC D4 etc such that it needed much fewer than 27 lines. If I can find or recreate those changes, I'll add them to Quackle as options sometime soon.
I didn't have too much trouble building Quackle on the Xandros that comes with the Eee, but Zyzzyva was quite a bit more trouble because it needed some newer libraries (like libc) than it had, so I switched to Ubuntu 8.04. It takes a while longer to boot up, but other than that I've been much happier. http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/ I've also seen people using Quackle on the Eee running Windows XP, and it seems to work great.. scrolling on windows bigger than the screen works a lot better in Windows than I ever managed with Xandros's alt-dragging. But since simming is already slow on the Eee running Linux, it's probably doubly so with Windows. John On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Graham Bonham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to the authors for the update to Quackle. > > I'm having trouble getting Quackle 0.96 to display satisfactorily on the > small screen of my Asus Eee PC. I've no experience re any previous > version of Quackle on the Asus, to know whether 0.96 is any different in > this regard but I have noticed Quackle seemingly being usable on someone > else's Asus. > > I'm not very skilled with Linux and it may emerge that the solution is > embarrassingly simple. I get some resizing capability but haven't so > far managed, by dragging window edges, to get everything visible on > screen, including the rack and the tile pool. Is this possible? If so, > please could someone tell me how or direct me to that information? A > couple of searches on the Quackle group didn't turn up the answer. > > I note that 0.96 now works in Windows 98 again, as did some previous > releases, which is nice. Old computers are often perfectly adequate for > running Scrabble programs and old low spec laptops can be pleasingly > light, with no fan noise and longer battery life. Of course, the Asus > is light. I'm just not totally enthused by it because of the small > screen and small keyboard. > > I've been missing Quackle Yahoo! messages recently because my e-mail > client, Thunderbird, seems to have taken to consistently assessing them > as junk mail. Am puzzled why that happened around 9-10 July. Looks > like I need to adjust some settings in Thunderbird! > >
