xboard on a local network

aeruzcar · 04-23-2006, 11:34 PM

Hello there, just a quick question, is there a way to use xboard to play chess on a local network? not trough ics, is that possible?
Thanks!!

maroonbaboon · 04-25-2006, 08:29 AM

According to the xboard FAQ it's not possible, except with a server as intermediary. Here's a link:

http://tim-mann.org/xboard/FAQ.html#[B.8]

I saw a comment that eboard (http://eboard.sourceforge.net/) will do what you want, but I have never tried it.

aeruzcar · 04-26-2006, 06:14 PM

I installed eboard as you said, but when trying to run it, it gives me the following error:
<BareBoard::BareBoard> can't load font
Do you know if I am missing something installed ??
Thanks!!

maroonbaboon · 04-27-2006, 09:04 PM

Either you are missing some font file, or some search path is not set correctly.

Did you install from the gentoo ebuild? If not you might give that a try instead. Eboard seems to be based on GTK2, and there are a lot of dependencies, which gentoo should take care of.

I was curious to see eboard so I installed the Debian package. There is certainly a menu option to connect directly to an eboard on another machine.

aeruzcar · 04-28-2006, 12:25 AM

well thanks, I figured out what was it, some font paths were not on his xorg conf file, now eboard runs fine and we can play directly woth eboard, thank you very much for your help, I learned a few new things with this.