You are an unsatisfied user of Linux Mint, so why not complain to the Mint folks about them including old versions of software in their distro?
On Nov 13, 2017 2:39 PM, "Charles Jones" <[email protected]> wrote: > LOL, You aught to up date your chess programs or get a hold the Synaptic > people and tell'm you programs our out of date, and should not be made > available. But then again who am i? The unsatisfied user. > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Tim Mann <[email protected]> > *To:* Charles Jones <[email protected]> > *Cc:* xboard-devel <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, November 12, 2017 10:54 PM > *Subject:* Re: xboard > > The xboard version you're using is based on the old Athena widget set, > which does not have a feature where you can click on a menu and have it > stay open until you click again to select from it. You have to press the > mouse button on the menu, move the mouse to your selection, and only then > release the mouse button. > > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Charles Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Tim, my name Charley, I will get to the point. I am running Linux Mint > 17, and was looking for a simple chess program, that i could use practice > with. So looked in Synaptic and found xboard and I like it to a point. > But when I click on a menu item the drop down list won't stay put, so I can > review its contents. Do you have a fix for this? Or a newer version? I > also installed Fair-max but that didn't seem to help. > > Please and thank you, Charley > > > > >
