Can't chat ingame

Can't chat ingame

Discuss everything related to running Spring on your chosen distribution of Linux.

Moderator: Moderators

Post Reply
Nittalope
Posts: 3
Joined: 01 Oct 2009, 17:52

Can't chat ingame

Post by Nittalope »

Hi everybody, I'm quite new with Spring, but really happy with it.
I've got one major problem.
Cannot chat when I'm playing, and while playing alone, no problem ;)
I'm on Ubuntu 9.04, using Springlobby to launch the game and with the 0.80.4.1 engine.
In Springlobby I've got no problem at all, chat is working normally, but when I start a game cannot write to anybody.
"Enter" doesn't pop up the chat, I've got to click on the name of a player for the line to appear, then I can write, but cannot send. "Enter", again, doesn't send anything... so it seems a problem with the key... I've got a Acer 6530, the keyboard has got two "Enter" keys, the main and the one in the numpad.
Layout is spanish (I bought the laptop in Spain).
SirMaverick
Posts: 834
Joined: 19 May 2009, 21:10

Re: Can't chat ingame

Post by SirMaverick »

Something seems to unbind the key.

Look into your uikeys.txt in your spring directory to see if there are any unbind commands (e.g. "grep enter ~/.spring/uikeys.txt").
Nittalope
Posts: 3
Joined: 01 Oct 2009, 17:52

Re: Can't chat ingame

Post by Nittalope »

Well, the uikeys.txt seems to be the default one.
Everything is commented (//), tried to uncomment the "Enter" bindings, but everything remains the same: still cannot chat.
Is there any other uikeys.txt file? Maybe in some other directory?
SirMaverick
Posts: 834
Joined: 19 May 2009, 21:10

Re: Can't chat ingame

Post by SirMaverick »

Nittalope wrote:Is there any other uikeys.txt file? Maybe in some other directory?
No just one file. But key binds can be changed via Widgets. Because no one else has that problem I think that this might be cause by a local widget. Try "grep -ir bind ~/.spring/LuaUI/Widgets/" (or wherever they are installed).
If you find nothing enable this widget. It will make spring save the current key setup to uikeys.tmp. Post that file pls.
Attachments
dbg_keys.lua
(294 Bytes) Downloaded 16 times
User avatar
BrainDamage
Lobby Developer
Posts: 1164
Joined: 25 Sep 2006, 13:56

Re: Can't chat ingame

Post by BrainDamage »

Nittalope wrote:Is there any other uikeys.txt file? Maybe in some other directory?
there is another where spring is installed, path should be ( YMMV ):
/usr/share/games/spring/uikeys.txt

but ~/.spring/uikeys.txt overrides that one if present
Post Reply

Return to “Linux”