David,

I have just started to play with xfractint and I have Kubuntu but I am having problems understanding basic usage. Using Google etc I am having difficulty finding basic usage examples. I thought that something like:

xfractint parmfile=58484w7a.par formulafile=mfr_12.frm

would work but I always get an error message stating that the formula file can't be found.

If it is not too much trouble would you explain to me the procedure you use with Linux to quickly and efficiently load and display the par files that are offered in this forum and elsewhere?

Thanks,
Roger

On 13-12-31 04:45 AM, david wrote:

Sorry, I must have left my brain somewhere out of the circuit. Pressing SHIFT-2 makes the @ sign. And that works just in in XFractint here. Doh!

I'd go back under my rock, but it's already in my head.

Just migrating to my new laptop: 2.4GHz i7, 1920x1080 IPS color display, and XFractint seems to fly on it. Is XFractint using multiple cores now?

On 12/30/2013 02:51 PM, Roger wrote:

I am running xfractint 20.4.10 on Kubuntu 12.04 and the "@" brings up
the 'Parameter Set Selection'.

Roger
On 13-12-30 07:36 PM, Jonathan Osuch wrote:

David,

I run XFractint on Aptosid (Debian Sid). And just noticed that when I
press Esc and go to the main screen, the "@" option does nothing but
return me to the starting Mandelbrot. Doesn't even give me an option to
load a file. That's XFractint 20.4.10.

I am running XFractint 20.4.12, and I don't see this problem. I also
don't see any obvious changes made between patch 10 and patch 12 that
would account for this being fixed. I don't recall having made any
significant changes to my version of 20.4.12, but it is possible.

Jonathan