Ah so terrain was what differentiated what turned black and didn't, I'll change the title and post to reflect that.

Lix version: 0.10.31 64-bit (not the compile yourself version)
Operating System version: Windows 10 LTSC 2021 64-bit English-United Kingdom, Version 21H2 OS Build 19044.5854
Description: Recently, I was playing a two-player multi-player Lix netplay session with Simon from IRC. Whilst I was playing, I noticed one of my other monitors had a "this monitor hasn't had any activity, powering off soon, press OK to cancel"-type messages. The way I was sitting, it's a bit delicate to get up and get the TV remote to turn it off, so I decided to just let it power off, as I wasn't using it. After doing so, the terrain on Lix turned black. Also, I had two Lix windows open, I also had a second, windowed "neutrals" Lix instance, which this also applies too. I've also attached the replay to the post. After loading the next round, everything was fine agian.
Steps to reproduce:
I haven't tested if it's reproducible yet, but I suppose you should just

• Have a multi-monitor configuration
• Open Lix and load a level
• Turn one of your other monitors off
• The terrain should change black

Screenshots/Recordings:
Luckily, I like to record my Lix sessions from IRC with Simon to look back one, so I was recording this all, I will add a recording later once I figure out how to use FFMPEG to trim a recording based on two timestamps without re-encoding it, but for now, here is a screenshot.

To preface this, I'm sorry if I say something wrong, as I'm not exactly sure how entrances/exists/seats/player counts work in Lix, but I've tried to look it up the best I can.

Quote from: Simon on June 02, 2025, 04:32:45 PMVery few maps use, e.g., 2 exits for 6 players, and rely on how ACE use one exit and BDF use the second exit. I want to remove this. It's not a big loss and the gain in simplicity will be worth it. This example map can easily become a 2-team map (it already has 2 exits) instead of a 6-team map.

So, if you remove this, then what will happen if you try to do to that after you remove it? Will it just give an error message?

Recieved the key. Thanks very much that's very kind of you to give away keys to your game.

I'd be interested in this giveaway please.

Quote from: Simon on May 19, 2025, 02:26:01 AMThere is no GUI widget that combines both (a) increment/decrement buttons and (b) number typing. I don't want to invest energy in making a special widget only for the menu color.

I think I suggested in the other menu colour thread if I remembered (and if I don't I think here and now) that it should be overhauled (e.g. number typing and maybe a preview). Manually adjusting red, blue and green separately with two arrows and no preview seemed such an unorthodox way of doing things imo. But I don't want to push too much for features if I don't know your motivations behind them and don't know the effort v. reward from the developer side that could be better spent elsewhere on Lix when one can just edit it in options.sdl.

Quote from: Simon on May 19, 2025, 02:26:01 AMI don't remember why the menu color is configurable in the first place. Such a 1990's feature.

I'm not sure if you were implying this with your vernacular or if it was unintentional, but please don't remove this feature. The menu colour changing is honestly, unironically one of, if not my favourite features Lix and I don't know where I'd be without it. It has a certain charm to it, reminds me of this other game called "Bubble Shooter" that allowed you to change the colour and the web IRC for Lix allows you to change the colour too. I'm not sure if it's to do with the 1990's in my case due to not being alive in the 1990's, that could tie into the charm I like from the old web that allowed more customization before all these walled gardens took over, or picking the own colour could just be a charm I like regardless. Picking your own Lix colour, in my opinion, helps the Lix interface feel fresh and vibrant to the user.

Exactly

1. Go to your Lix colours
2. Set one of the sliders to F0
3. Press the right arrow with one arrow

This then cycles it through to 00 instead of going F2

Did you intend for the filename limit to still be in 0.10.31?

To preface this, sorry for the double post, as I remember reading somewhere some people don't like that on forums. However, I have discovered another bug with Windows Key + Shift + Left Arrow/Right Arrow. If I use it in hardware fullscreen, I can get a similar "softlock" bug where my Lix mouse cursor can't reach certain parts of the screen, even when the other monitors don't have a greater width nor height than the hardware fullscreen resolution. I'm not sure what gets it to trigger though. I haven't even tried Windows Key + Shift + Left Arrow/Right Arrow on hardware fullscreen to monitors with a lower greater width or height than the hardware fullscreen resolution. I doubt that will give any sort of desired behaviour either, as that's basically a double whammy of what we've been discussing.

Quote from: namida on April 15, 2025, 09:13:31 PMAnd how much of that old music fits with Lix's philosophy of avoiding copyrighted resources?

We could get some in the public domain/specifically created for Lix/CC as you pointed out, but it's a moot point, as I was thinking more for other people downloading MIDIs off the internet, and putting them in their Lix folder, not MIDIs shipping with Lix.

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To clarify, I didn't think this was high priority anyway, just that it'd be preferable to have at some point.

Good points though, maybe I overestimated the amount of people who think "Hm, I like the asthetic of the Lix music, I'd like to download some more in that asthetic to add to my folder. I know! I'll download some MIDIs" and underestimated the effort it would take. Maybe I'm probably the only person who exists in that niche .

Thanks for your input and for giving me some explanations WillLem and Namida.

I don't want Lix to be overly blotaed with feautres, I remember reading somewhere once that new suggestions should have a strong case, and most suggestions are bad, and obviously as a developer I don't know all the work that goes into it, I don't want to be selfish, obviously there must be some reason why you don't just add all the file formats right away, but considering MIDI was used for a lot of old computer music, it gives off the same sort of vibes as Lix, and it can be harder for less tech-literate people to convert due to the instrument sounds not being stored within the file, and converting loses the file size advantage, I think it would be a good fit for Lix to have it at some point.

Quote from: Simon on April 14, 2025, 01:07:53 AMSorry for the ambiguous terseness. I meant: For Lix in hardware fullscreen, you describe the following problem: You want to move Lix (in hardware fullscreen) to a different monitor, and to do that, you press Winkey + Shift + Left/Right.

You observe: Lix turns into a black square and moves to the target monitor. Graphical relics of Lix remain on the source monitor.

You expected instead the result of Winkey + Shift + Left/Right that you know from other games, which is: Lix moves to the target monitor fully visible (not as a black square). Lix leaves no relics on the source monitor. Lix remains fully playable.

Yes. In fact, I think you can play it still on the source monitor, but you use the mouse on where the black square is, but this doesn't matter because Lix uses it's own cursor. But Yes I know what you mean.

To preface this message, it's been nearly two weeks since I post this, so apologies if I accidently send any misinformation, or forgot something that was based on context I had in my short-term memory at the time

Quote from: Simon on April 11, 2025, 09:54:56 PMWhere does Lix open when you choose software fullscreen?

Works as expected, never had any problems here, I assume it just opens up to your operating system settings primary monitor.

Quote from: Simon on April 11, 2025, 09:54:56 PMThen there is the problem that "turns Lix window into entirely black square" for hardware fullscreen. Instead, you want the Windows hotkey (Winkey + Shift + Left/Right).

I think this is correct. Apologies, but I'm struggling to comprehend the meaning of what you were trying to convey here. I think this may be due to English being your second language. Just to clarify, the black square is only for hardware fullscreen if you try Windows Key + Shift + Left/Right arrow

Quote from: Simon on April 11, 2025, 09:54:56 PMneed hardware fullscreen? Is the point to make Lix pixellated, or are you working around technical problems of software fullscreen?

I wanted to get the old Lix look back. It's been a while so I forgot, but I think we discussed on IRC that hardware fullscreen 640x480 is the same as the old Lix look except for the font. Also, for some reason, when I run Lix on hardware fullscreen 640x480, The Frog-Hotel becomes massively easier.

Quote from: Simon on April 11, 2025, 09:54:56 PMIs some of this stuff broken for software fullscreen, too? E.g., what happens when you run Lix in software fullscreen, then press (Winkey + Shift + Left/Right)?

Yes, I said so previously in this thread. Apologies if I wasn't clear enough. If I do this, it works fine (except for the fact it doesn't fill up the whole monitor, remaining the same size, and doesn't have a title bar border) if Lix only shifts between monitor sizes which are the same or greater than the current monitor size. However, if it moves to a monitor size that is lower than one it's already been on, the Lix window will get squashed and remain like that even after pressing Winkey + Shift + Left/Right again, as if it's gotten "locked to that size"), and you'll be softlocked due to not being able to move the mouse properly.

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I'll try to record some footage later if that's helpful, I think it will be a lot easier to show what I mean by just recording it rather than doing it through text. I might not be able to do it right away though because the footage will have to include all four monitors, and closing and opening Lix from a file browser, so I'll need to consider how I'm going to record it to make sure I don't accidently record anything private, and I'll also need to figure out how to get that thing that shows an overlay of the keyboard on OBS.

Quote from: namida on April 01, 2025, 10:30:16 AMIt's just taken offline at this stage, so yeah, I can restore it. Remind me another time and I'll get it out for you.

Thanks so much man

Quote from: namida on April 04, 2025, 07:29:25 PMIt's important to keep in mind that always going against the majority opinion isn't any smarter than always going with it (and is just as easy to end up doing without realising it). You're still blindly following others, just in a different way.

But no one else likes Fandom but me, everyone else on the Internet dislikes Fandom, so I started to think Fandom is a very kind website on my own without copying anyone else.