xboard - set name of engines?

[cyberfish]

Just a quick question -

For xboard protover 1 engines, is it possible to set names for them with command line arguments?

The default is to use the name of the binary, but I run them through "nice"... and now they are all called "nice" in my PGN.

Thanks

[MattieShoes]

I don't think engines specified their names before protover 2 but I'm not positive. I'm sure somebody else can give you a more definite answer... Perhaps one could work around with with a shell script with a better name that runs nice blah...

[hgm]

I don't think there is anything like that.

But there is no need to run them through nice in the latest alpha version, as this supports an option -niceEngines N to lower the priority of the engine processes.

The source can be obtained from:

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/xboard44.zip

(Please, only for people that want to use it immediately, as in a few hours it will already be obsolete an replaced by a newer version.)

[krazyken]

This reminds me of a slight cosmetic bug in Xboard. Sometimes when an engine takes too long to initialize or something, the the name of the engine is missed and the executable name is used in the window title. Not a big deal, it shows up fine in the engine output window. The part that annoys me about this is that the name is not properly recorded in the pgn file. It will use the executable name like it does for the window title.

[cyberfish]

Thanks.

I think I'm going to go down the shell script route, since it's a more general solution (also works for "wine" for example).