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[Finch]

Hi everyone!

I recently started playing Dwarf Fortress and it's really great!  I'm running Linux and I've installed it and it runs fine on my computer (AMD64, Linux Mint 13), but I have a small problem.

I decided to try playing the game in the terminal using PRINT_MODE:TEXT (partly for fun, and also because I'd like to be able to play on my computer without loading a desktop environment) and it works, looking just fine, with music and everything.  The only problem is that the game defaults to only using the top-left 80x25 characters, rather than using the my whole terminal screen (which is 160x64 characters in size).  I've tried changing the WINDOWEDX, WINDOWEDY, FULLSCREENX and FULLSCREENY values to resize it like you do in 2D mode, but in text mode it doesn't seem to have any effect.

Has anyone tried doing this, or come into the same problem as me?  I suppose it doesn't really matter, but it would be fun!

[Trif]

Well, I played around for a bit, but resizing doesn't seem to be possible in text mode. The option for tilesets, resizing, zooming and so on was introduced when the OpenGL code was rewritten in SDL, but since the text mode uses a "primitive ncurses output" none of the graphic options work there.

Edit: removed a lot of nonsense.

[Trif]

Actually, disregard everything I said there. DF gets resized automatically when I resize my terminal. I don't know how that works if you don't load a desktop environment, but the point is, it is possible.

[greycat]

I haven't tried curses mode display, but if it's not picking up the size of your terminal, then I'd try exporting the COLUMNS and LINES environment variables:

export COLUMNS=$(tput cols)
export LINES=$(tput lines)

If that works, consider adding that to the "df" script that launches Dwarf Fortress.  See also http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/091