Re: DOSBox-X version 0.83.20 on M1

[Bill Troop <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx>]

Re my thought that this output may reveal a bug, I want to be clear that
CONFIG -L is reporting a directory that does not exist on my
system. 

At 12/27/2021 06:10 AM, you 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.