Forum:Game crashes upon save in OSX 10.4.11 -- this is a hack to fix

From Freeciv

The basic install of freeciv 2.1.6 on my PowerPC running OSX 10.4.11 went just fine, until I tried to play. Everytime I tried to start a new game, I got the error "Lost connection to server!!" and went back to the initial startup screen.

The solution was to define the environment variable $HOME=/Users/<username> in the X11 terminal that pops-up when the game starts, where <username> is your login name for OSX

$ export HOME=/Users/<username>

then the program runs fine.

My question is: my usual profile settings export HOME to the environment, but when the X11 xterm is starts to run civclient, it doesn't get the settings. Where can I tell the X11 xterm to load the right settings? And can this be incorporated into the app launcher for freeciv?

Cheers, --Jim Parker

75.8.83.65 05:27, 10 November 2008 (UTC)