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Subject: Re: xboard (linux) and chess servers

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 05:06:42 06/16/01

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On June 15, 2001 at 18:49:20, Scott Gasch wrote:

>On June 15, 2001 at 14:42:53, Frank Phillips wrote:
>
>>When logged onto the chess servers using xboard under Linux (Mandrake 8.0 and
>>KDE2 or Gnome) the message window in the terminal and the input window are one
>>and the same.  So typing (input) is often broken up by incoming messages -
>>unlike winboard under Windows where the input and output windows are separate.
>>
>>Is there anyway round this?
>>
>>Frank
>
>Try the -icsinput flag if you want.  It makes a little window you can type the
>input in that is not the same window as the output from ICS.  But I find it
>unusable.
>
>Scott

Scott/Gian-Carlo

Thanks.  The -icsinput (which I had not seen) command does the trick.

Frank



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