Bug#677313: xboard: no way to remember -inc/-timeIncrement option

2013-01-03 Thread h.g. muller
XBoard has always had the XResources file, and I have always used that and loved it, until the *%$ing xboardrc file started overriding it. So no, they weren't volatile at all. That would still qualify as volatile, because XBoard would never write in the XResources file. So whatever changes

Bug#677313: xboard: no way to remember -inc/-timeIncrement option

2013-01-02 Thread h.g. muller
At 19:27 1-1-2013 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:18:15 +0200 h.g. muller h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote: h I intentionally disabled persistence of the -inc option by forcing h its value to -1 in the last line of the xboard.conf master settings h file. This was motivated by the

Bug#677313: xboard: no way to remember -inc/-timeIncrement option

2013-01-02 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:31:34 +0200 h.g. muller h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote: The manual in general does not list with every option whether it is persistent or volatile. It says this: This section documents the command-line options to XBoard. You can set these options in two

Bug#677313: xboard: no way to remember -inc/-timeIncrement option

2013-01-02 Thread h.g. muller
At 09:45 2-1-2013 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:31:34 +0200 h.g. muller h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote: The manual in general does not list with every option whether it is persistent or volatile. It says this: This section documents the command-line options to

Bug#677313: xboard: no way to remember -inc/-timeIncrement option

2013-01-02 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:57:19 +0200 h.g. muller h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote: h The manual in general does not list with every option whether it is h persistent or volatile. Ian It says this: Ian This section documents the command-line options to XBoard. You can Ian set these options in two ways:

Bug#677313: xboard: no way to remember -inc/-timeIncrement option

2013-01-01 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:18:15 +0200 h.g. muller h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote: h I intentionally disabled persistence of the -inc option by forcing h its value to -1 in the last line of the xboard.conf master settings h file. This was motivated by the fact that a saved -inc value = 0 h would cause

Bug#677313: xboard: no way to remember -inc/-timeIncrement option

2012-06-17 Thread Vincent Legout
forwarded 677313 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36673 thanks Hi, Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org writes: Quite annoyingly, xboard seems to ignore this option when it is given in a configuration file (doesn't matter if the top level one or one included with -settingsFile), and to always force a

Bug#677313: xboard: no way to remember -inc/-timeIncrement option

2012-06-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Package: xboard Version: 4.6.2-1 Severity: normal Quite annoyingly, xboard seems to ignore this option when it is given in a configuration file (doesn't matter if the top level one or one included with -settingsFile), and to always force a classic time control on startup. This can be changed