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Hi,

In XBoard, How can I move pieces during game by using keyboard?
It works in WinBoard but not in XBoard. My XBoard version is 4.5.2a & installed in Fedora Linux.


Thanks.

Is this in ICS mode or when playing locally? In principle the move type-in should popup if you start typing at the board in local mode. I thought that even 4.5.2 already did that, although it is extremely obsolete. (The stable version is now 4.7.2...) There is one tricky thing in the Xaw build, however: it is really the board that should have focus, not the board window. So if you give the window focus by clicking on the edge or the title bar, XBoard is insensitive to the keyboard (including all key bindings). You really have to click the board first.

Hello,
It's local play (i.e. not internet).
I've xboard-4.7.2 but its full of source files :s
Have tried on clicking board & window.
May be I should try latest version?

Indeed, using a more recent version would be better. I thought 4.5.2 included the move type-in, because this was just at the time when I was adding all the menu dialogs. I cannot test it easily, because my settings file contains all kind of options that did not exist at the time, and 4.5.2 gives a fatal error on that. But I checked at the GNU what's new pages now, and it appears the move type-in indeed came later (version 4.6.0).

There should be binary package available for a number of Linux distributions at the Open Build Server.

Hi,
I updated to xboard-4.6.2 & "move by keyboard" is working. Thanks.