Winboard Forum

I have little Linux experience, and none with Wine at all, but I am asking this on behalf of a non-Windows user that wants to observe first hand what exactly the differences in graphics capablities are between WinBoard and XBoard.

In particular, would it still be possible to use true-type fonts for piece rendering, and bitmap background textures for the board?

Wine is easy to use, just install wine, and when you make double click in the executable Winboard (windows) then linux does not recognize, then you associate with wine and ready.

(I think that I had a problem to start because of the winboard.ini file and I had to copy the file from the program folder to other folder in linux.)

I can't remember if I was using a true-type font, but I was using bitmap background textures for the board (wood) with Winboard_X.

Everything seemed to work correctly.

I've only messed with the standard 4.2.7 version of winboard, but yes, that version works well in wine. Although it works with builtin riched20, I recommend using a native riched20 if you use it as an ICS client.

H.G.Muller wrote:I have little Linux experience, and none with Wine at all, but I am asking this on behalf of a non-Windows user that wants to observe first hand what exactly the differences in graphics capablities are between WinBoard and XBoard.

To be sure you get an accurate depiction of winboard, you can always run it in a VM. Virtualbox even has a seamless mode where windows and native linux apps coexist on the same desktop.

H.G.Muller wrote:In particular, would it still be possible to use true-type fonts for piece rendering, and bitmap background textures for the board?

I would think so. But to be sure, it must be tried.