Lair Larrikin
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Joined: Wednesday, 22nd July 2015, 16:50
Building/compiling Crawl on Ubuntu (Linux Mint)
[EDIT 0: FOR CLEAN STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PLAY ONLINE CONSOLE: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17143] [RECOMMENDED]
[EDIT 1: SEE POST #6 (viewtopic.php?p=234693#p234693) FOR A BETTER RECAP OF THESE QUITE-BULKY OFFLINE-PLAY INSTRUCTIONS.]
sudo apt-get install git build-essential libncursesw5-dev bison flex liblua5.1-0-dev libsqlite3-dev zlib1g-dev pkg-config libsdl2-image-dev
git clone https://github.com/crawl/crawl.git
cd crawl
git submodule update --init
cd crawl-ref/source
make
then, wait for a while (it might take about five minutes)
then, right click inside the terminal window, and select profiles > profile preferences
on the general tab, uncheck "use the system font", and choose "dejavu sans mono", size 21 (which is the max size fitting on 1080p screens)
on the colours tab, select the "white on black" background scheme, and the "xterm" palette scheme
on the background tab, select "solid color"
on the scrolling tab, disable the scrollbar
some of these are preference-based.
to play, open the terminal (ctrl+alt+t) and send "./crawl/crawl-ref/source/crawl" (f11 to enter full-screen mode)
there is only one thing which still eludes me. different results are produced for the fonts, depending on the steps taken. first off, choosing either "Monospace (Ubuntu Mono Regular?)" or "Dejavu Sans Mono" produces the same result.
Furthermore, if one chooses 21 as the font size, it results in a similar output than if one chooses 12 as the font size but zooms in a few times using ctrl-shift-+ (one output takes a little more space vertically, but both are identical on the x axis).