Xboard questions.

[Elf Wizard]

Hi!

I installed these days xboard and 2 chess machines, gnuchess (that comes with xboard) and crafty.
They're working OK, but I have 2 questions:

First of all, I'm using these command switches:

xboard -size Middling -showCoords true -pixmap $HOME/xboard/redmarble/merida/redmarble/ -showThinking true -movesound -fcp crafty -scp crafty

(Xboard fonts, are from there: http://ixian.com/chess/xboard-winboard-pixmaps/.

a) When passing those switches from konsole, xboard sound is working OK (for beeping after opponent's move).
When entering them at desktop (or menu) icon (right click->properties->application (3rd tab)->command (3rd line), sound is not working.

OK, I made a permanent alias at /home/.bashrc

alias xb='xboard -size Middling -showCoords true -pixmap $HOME/xboard/redmarble/merida/redmarble/ -showThinking true -movesound -fcp crafty -scp crafty'

, so I have to type only "xb" at konsole.

I'm curious though, why the desktop icon way, is not working (only for -movesound parameter).

b) When (from inside xboard) launching (eg. "two machines") a chess machine (I tried crafty and gnuchess), I'm getting (at konsole) this warning:

Warning: XtRemoveGrab asked to remove a widget not on the list

Apart from that, I can't see any conflict. The chess machines, seems to working properly.

Any experience with them?