Msg: Re: DOSBox-X version 0.83.20 on M1

Neither of these two entries in the config file seems to work. Either the syntax is wrong or they are getting overridden or ignored somehow?

working directory default = /Users/billt/dellxps17
working directory option = prompt

I have duplicated the config and mapper files in every possible folder and know the config is working. But still, ttf doesn't happen and 42x80 doesn't happen. And the control key doesn't get remapped even though remapper says it has been remapped.

On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 6:10 AM Wengier W <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Bill,

The user configuration directory and the working directory are two completely separate things; the two directories as shown by CONFIG -L do not indicate a bug, but rather something wrong with the setting. There is no need to change the user configuration directory, which looks fine, but the working directory appears to be certainly wrong for your use case. I think you can indeed remove the existing working directory default line and replace it with a directory that contains the mapper file and font files etc, or you can put these files in /Users/billt/. I believe it should work when you make such changes.

Wengier

On Sunday, December 26, 2021, 06:53:24 p.m. EST, Bill Troop <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

One note about config -L

It reports that the user configuration directory is
/Users/billt/Library/Preferences/

but,

/Users/billt/

does not contain an entry for LIbrary or Preferences.

Rather, the existing /libary/preferences on this vanilla system are
straight off the "macintosh HD" or root.

If that isn't a bug, then what is it?

Meanwhile: XyWrite looks great once I execute the menu commands
screen mode 43x80, and Output, TrueType font.

But nothing I put in config makes these things happen. And MAPPER
reports that the change I made has taken, BUT, the program still uses
the Mac's control key.

Just in case it's important, the chip is M1 Max; the OS is 12.01.

And I don't think I have the right syntax for the working directory
default line in dosbox-x.conf. The documentation seems to me to
indicate that it should be
working directory default /Users/billt/dellxps17
but this doesn't work, and I cannot find any suggestion how else to write it.