gnobots21

The gnome robots game

Usage

gnobots2 [OPTION ...]

Overview

gnobots2, part of the gnome-games package, is a development of the original Gnome Robots game which was itself based on the text based robots game which can be found on a number of UNIX systems, and comes with the BSD games package on Linux systems.

This new version includes two types of robots, movable junkheaps, multiple game configurations, user definable keyboard layouts, sound using ESD if you have it, as well as all of the other features which were present in the original Gnome Robots game.

Usage

To run GNOME Robots II, select "games->GnobotsII" from the Main Menu, or type gnobots2 on the command line.

Options

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`--'). A summary of the options supported by gnobots2 is included below.

GNOME options

--disable-sound: Disable sound server usage

--enable-sound: Enable sound server usage

--espeaker=HOSTNAME:PORT: Host:port on which the sound server to use is running

--version: Display version information and exit

Help options

-?, --help: Show help and exit

--usage: Display brief usage message

GTK options

--gdk-debug=FLAGS: Gdk debugging flags to set

--gdk-no-debug=FLAGS: Gdk debugging flags to unset

--display=DISPLAY: X display to use

--sync: Make X calls synchronous

--no-xshm: Don't use X shared memory extension

--name=NAME: Program name as used by the window manager

--class=CLASS: Program class as used by the window manager

--gxid_host=HOST

--gxid_port=PORT

--xim-preedit=STYLE

--xim-status=STYLE

--gtk-debug=FLAGS: Gtk+ debugging flags to set

--gtk-no-debug=FLAGS: Gtk+ debugging flags to unset

--g-fatal-warnings: Make all warnings fatal

--gtk-module=MODULE: Load an additional Gtk module

GNOME GUI options

--disable-crash-dialog

Session management options

--sm-client-id=ID: Specify session management ID

--sm-config-prefix=PREFIX: Specify prefix of saved configuration

--sm-disable: Disable connection to session manager

gnobots2 options

-s, --scenario=NAME: Set game scenario

-c, --config=NAME: Set game configuration

-x, --x=ARG

-y, --y=ARG

Files

~/.gnome/gnobots2: Configuration File