SCID vs PC

You can try this. Hope it works.

http://www.linuxx.eu/2012/11/scid-vs-pc-installation-guide-ubuntu.html

I am new at linux. so i dont know how to use the terminal, but I will try. many thanks, 

Lol you can't even save annotations.  Its a reader.

Just get a smart Linux distro, not Ubuntu. I suggest Manjaro Linux, which is very easy to install and manage. A breeze, compared to the parent distro, ArchLinux, which is... errr, geeky.

Installing Scid_Vs_Pc there is a breeze. There is a GUI installer, but the simplest way is opening a terminal, and typing in

yaourt scid_vs_pc

That's all, the rest is manageable even by my cat. The installer script will download, build and install all needed dependencies, and finally the application itself. The whole thing does not last more than 4 minutes, and all you have to type interactively is one number, and either y (for yes) or n (for no).

Quite a few windoze applications are more fussy to install and work properly!

What's wrong with Ubuntu? It's great and (relatively) easy to use (compared to other distros, *cough* ArchLinux, *cough*). That said, I prefer the more 'modern aesthetics' of Elementary OS. I dislike Manjaro mostly because of its Windows 7-esque look.

Would recommend Solus OS/Zorin OS for beginners. Once you get the hang of it, move to Elementary OS or Ubuntu.

Linux can look like windows if you wish so. Or, it can look like a mac. Or, it can look like.... well, even like something unique. Just pick some windows manager and desktop of your choice. In Manjaro, you don't have to use XFCE4, which is by nature conservative, and windows-esque. KDE5/ Plasma certainly does not look like windoze, and it's an official release, for example.

Fair enough. I guess when I was using Manjaro it was an older version. By all accounts it has improved quite a lot.

I want to tell you that in the linux mint forum help me to install scidvspc. Now i have it. About the distro. I like mint, I find it very user friendly. Thanks to all.

They help with this steps and a new vertion of scidvspc. many thanks.

Anyone know how to search for positions with a similar pawn structure to the current board?

If you're using the latest subversion , you can check out the CQL search help -

Quick and powerful position searches can be done by marking squares with Shift+Click, then opening the CQL search dialog

Thx

I have yet to find where background color behind chess board is specified in scid.gui, and while there is an option to change PGN background color, there's none for the board background (I've already customized texture and pieces). I'd like to override the default Windows color for the background. Anyone been able to change this in scid.gui or...?

Keyboard shortcut for autoplay is listed as Ctrl+z but it's not working in version 4.19. Has it been changed or removed?

Sorry, but... you can.

I guess it was omitted, or at least, I can't find any trace of it in any .tcl file

Change

bind .main <Control-z> {menuUndo undo}
to

bind .main <Control-z> {toggleAutoplay}

Changing to toggleAutoplay worked! :-))

Can Control-? be fixed as well? It's supposed to open random game but instead opens window with list of databases.

In scid.gui, open random game is associated with Control-? in several places: Games and Databases, Finder and under ###Edit menu as $m add command -label GameRandom -command ::game::LoadRandom -accelerator "control-?"
set helpMessage($m,[incr menuindex]) GameRandom

? is Shift+/ on most keyboards (?)

Press Control+Shift+/ to load random game

Ah, yes, an excellent point. If I only I had had the wisdom to realize this before posting query. My bad. Thanks for your wisdom.

BTW, I found fix for Scid vs PC on Windows tablet. I can select to show keyboard icon on task bar and use that for digital keyboard below chess board. Works very nicely.