Banjooie
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However: A single red pen, perhaps?


Consider, briefly, the possibility of a room. It's a complicated room, full of orbs you do want to hit, and ones you don't, and there's a specific path you wanna go, etc, and you keep forgetting.

Hit the 'red pen' button, draw your lines, go at it. It stays through restarts of the room, but disappears once you leave.

Just like basically having MS paint open over a screenshot, except it has to stay in the play area. Or the portrait. Because we all want to draw little mustaches on Beethro's mug.

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Heh. We think alike.
(and so I like the fact you posted about it)

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EVERY REPOST IS REPOST REPOST

trick
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This is already possible:

1. Use Linux
2. Install Beryl
3. Play around with its nice-looking but useless features
4. Discover that some things are actually useful



~ Gerry

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trick wrote:
1. Use Linux
2. Install Beryl
3. Play around with its nice-looking but useless features
4. Discover that some things are actually useful

Based on this, I decided to play with Beryl. Query: How do I keep JtRH from being transparent?

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trick
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md5i wrote:
Based on this, I decided to play with Beryl. Query: How do I keep JtRH from being transparent?

That's a SDL bug that was fixed in a recent SDL version (either 1.2.10 or 1.2.11, I think). So, you've got two options:

1. Either upgrade your DROD installation to 2.0.15.1, which includes a newer SDL library with the fix,
2. ..or remove the old libSDL-1.2.so from drod's Libs directory and make sure you've got a newer SDL installed on your system (or if you built DROD yourself, just upgrade the SDL library).

~ Gerry

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md5i
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Brilliant. That did the trick, trick. Thanks.

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I've attempted to convince myself to use Beryl (Got it installed, at any rate) but apparently it messes with opengl games or some such chicanery?

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Banjooie wrote:
I've attempted to convince myself to use Beryl (Got it installed, at any rate) but apparently it messes with opengl games or some such chicanery?

I guess it's more that Beryl itself uses OpenGL and thus other OpenGL apps can't use it...

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