KBACKGAMMON 6 September 3rd, 2001 kde-games KDE User's Manual kbackgammon the KDE Backgammon game kbackgammon Qt-option KDE-option kbackgammon (aka bacKgammon) is a graphical backgammon program. The objective of backgammon is to move your checkers off the board before your opponent does. While the rules of backgammon are moderately difficult (the most difficult part apparently being the initial positioning of the checkers), this document does not try to teach these rules: please refer to the web, a book, or (probably best) a friend for this. KBackgammon offers you a graphical backgammon board that can be used almost entirely by using the mouse (although textual commands are also available). Therefore, KBackgammon is easy to use and allows you to concentrate on the important aspects of playing backgammon. In order to play backgammon, you usually need an opponent. KBackgammon offers you to play against hundreds of different opponents of various strength on the First Internet Backgammon Server. If you prefer, you may also use the Offline Engine which allows you to play against yorself or friends that are with you at your computer. In the near future KBackgammon will also allow you to play against GNU Backgammon, which is a very powerful backgammon program . It plays on FIBS with a rating of about 2000 (which is quite high). Finally, the architecture of KBackgammon i squite open and it is possible to include support for other engines easily (if you are interested in this, please contact the author). This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`--'). A summary of the options supported by kbackgammon is included below. --author Show author information --help Show help about options --help-qt Show Qt specific options --help-kde Show KDE specific options --help-all Show all options --license Show license information -v, --version Show version information and exit. --display displayname Use the X-server display displayname. --session sessionId Restore the application for the given sessionId. --cmap Causes the application to install a private color map on an 8-bit display. --ncols count Limits the number of colors allocated in the color cube on a 8-bit display, if the application is using the QApplication::ManyColor color specification. --nograb tells Qt to never grab the mouse or the keyboard. --dograb running under a debugger can cause an implicit -nograb, use -dograb to override. --sync switches to synchronous mode for debugging. --fn, --font fontname defines the application font. --bg, --background color sets the default background color and an application palette (light and dark shades are calculated). --fg,--foreground color sets the default foreground color. --btn, --button color sets the default button color. --name name sets the application name. --title title sets the application title (caption). --visual TrueColor forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8-bit display. --inputstyle sets XIM (X Input Method) input style. Possible values are onthespot, overthespot, offthespot and root. --im XIM server set XIM server. --noxim disable XIM. --caption caption Use caption as name in the titlebar. --icon icon Use icon as the application icon. --miniicon icon Use icon as the icon in the titlebar. --dcopserver server Use the DCOP Server specified by server. --nocrashhandler Disable crash handler, to get core dumps. --waitforwm Waits for a WM_NET compatible windowmanager. --style style sets the application GUI style. --geometry geometry sets the client geometry of the main widget. ~/.kde/share/apps/kbackgammon/ ~/.kde/share/config/kbackgammonrc kbackgammon configuration kbackgammon is documented in detail by The KBabel Handbook (/usr/local/kde/share/doc/HTML/default/kbackgammon/index.html). KBackgammon Homepage KDE Jens Hoefkens jens@hoefkens.com This man-page was written by Jan Schaumann jschauma@netmeister.org as part of "The Missing Man Pages Project".