Xboard fails to use your themes

[WPFilmmaker]

Hello, first of all thank you for your beautiful sets! I hope to see more for chess variants in the future too.

I am having issues to use them though.

• I downloaded them from here
• Unzipped the zip archive
• placed them in /usr/share/games/xboard/themes (each set has a folder)
• In Xboard I am using Hachu 0.21 and shogi 9x9 (the only option available)
• In board options I put the right path to the folder for the set I wanted to use, click ok but nothing happens, restarting doesn't change anything.

Any idea? Ps: do you know a good engine (possibily opensource) to play shogi and xiangqi which is not Hachu?

I am on Lubuntu 18.04 Xboard 4.9.1

[Kadagaden]

Hi,

That's because the XBoard filename format was dropped in 5864d5ba22a09925346f35193c97f2e45ea5aff2

The filenames are for pychess.org by default, but you can use them with XBoard or other programs by renaming the files. I made a shell script for this, see shogitool.sh which now I uploaded to this repository. Copy shogitool.sh into the directory of a piece set (eg. kanji_red_wood) and run ./shogitool.sh --help for more information. For example, you can rename the files to the XBoard naming format by ./shogitool.sh p2x

You can permanently add themes by editing the Theme list: View -> Edit Theme List -> here you can add the themes like this (one line, one theme):

"shogi kanji red wood" -ubt true -lbtf /PATH_TO/tile_wood4.png -dbtf /PATH_TO/tile_wood4.png -pid /PATH_TO/kanji_red_wood

(note: this is one line!)

Of course, you need to edit the PATH, the line above is just an example.

Sorry, I'm not familiar with Hachu and I cannot really recommend an engine for XBoard. Maybe on Reddit you can find some recommendation. I used XBoard mainly for testing the themes/pieces, not really for playing against an engine.