From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16181 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2003 22:32:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16173 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2003 22:32:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp806.mail.sc5.yahoo.com) (66.163.168.185) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Nov 2003 22:32:53 -0000 Received: from adsl-64-175-251-31.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net (HELO odysseus.peterslan) (sampln@sbcglobal.net@64.175.251.31 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Nov 2003 22:32:52 -0000 Subject: Re: Build List Limits and Hotseat From: Lincoln Peters To: Elijah Meeks Cc: Xconq list In-Reply-To: <20031120221839.23969.qmail@web13106.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031120221839.23969.qmail@web13106.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1069367558.6833.15773.camel@odysseus.peterslan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:39:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00872.txt.bz2 On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:18, Elijah Meeks wrote: > > Uhhh...what's a "hotseat" mode? > > > > A multi-player sequential game where the game is > played on the same computer, with each player taking > turns controlling his own units. I'm not aware of any support in Xconq for this kind of play. Although I would imagine that, at least on Linux, if you have a desktop environment and/or window manager that supports virtual desktops, you could put each player's respective window(s) on a different desktop. Of course, there is no security in such a setup. If you really want to do this, and you want security, I'd imagine that the best solution would be for the screen to go blank when one player's turn ends, a message pops up saying whose turn it is and asks for that player's password. When the correct password is entered, the appropriate player's view would appear. Yet another entry for the TODO file, I guess...