Sorry for the late response.
Context menus were never implemented in the GTK version of XBoard; the
Piece Menu was considered deprecated in favor of sweep selection, and
the -pieceMenu option was only kept for the benefit of the Xaw version.
Sweep selection turns out not to be so easy on touchpad devices as it is
with a mouse, though. So in the development version (currently only at
http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi , the v4.9.x branch) I have
been experimenting with an alternative (currently selected by -pieceMenu
true). This would not pop up the old-style piece menu on a right-click,
but instead a note that explains all the things you can do to edit the
position with this new method. Basically it amounts to clicking the
clock once to call up a 'palette board' containing each piece once, and
snatch pieces from that with a right-click for repeatedly dropping them
on empty squares by left-clicking. (But if you only need a single copy
of that piece, you can simply move it to the disired location as well.)
Extra (left-)clicks on pieces for which this is relevant can be used to
grant or revoke (castling or e.p.) rights.
Op 3/30/2019 om 12:40 PM schreef Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος:
Hi! :-)
I'm giving at console "xboard -pieceMenu true" and XBoard starts.
Going at Edit -> Edit Position -> right (or left or double) click on
an empty (or not) square -> Nothing happens. No menu.
Last stable version (4.9.1) from repositories at Devuan ASCII (stable)
x64 KDE (Debian stable based).
Bye!
G.
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