Hello Todd,
Il 24 febbraio 2026 alle 17:04 Todd Doucet ha scritto:
> PS: I also find that 2D board animation is glitchy on my Linux Mint
> system, and 3D board animation is extremely glitchy. I spent a day
> debugging it with chat-gpt's help and our conclusion was that it was
> probably a gnubg problem, not a graphics stack problem. I disabled the 3d
> board entirely from the build that seemed to make the 2d board more
> stable. All told, it is pretty disappointing to have glitchy rendering in
> 2025, although I suppose one could blame it on the display stack. But
> honestly, not likely. Welcome to 1995.
I had a similar problem. Philippe Michel correctly diagnosed it:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnubg/2025-08/msg00004.html
tl;dr: compile with Gtk2
Regarding the main part of the message:
Il 24 febbraio 2026 alle 17:04 Todd Doucet ha scritto:
> The bug occurred during a 5-point match. I was trailing 0-3 to 5, and I
> had cubed to 2 and gnubg accepted. I gammoned gnubg on that game, the
> final roll was 2-2 and I had two checkers on each of the ace and deuce. So
> a forced move, a gammon, and it should be 4-1 crawford.
>
> At the beginning of the next game, I noticed that gnubg thought the score
> was still 0-3 to 5, but it also thought that the game was crawford.
>
> […]
>
> I don't subscribe to this list but if somebody wants a copy of the match
> file, email me directly and I will send it.
I am sure many of us are interested! I do not know if you can post
attachments to the list, but I would like to take a look at it
—F
