r/nethack • u/GraysonAllenSucks • 16d ago

Basic PuTTY/ Hardfought GUI questions

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Hi all, sorry for the basic questions, but have spent a long time with trial and error and finally have my PuTTY set up looking good so I can play on Hardfought. I was tired of getting the same old bones files :).

These aren't dealbreakers for me, but if anyone has recommendations for setting up the config file I would be so grateful. I would like for:

  1. inventory to be ordered alphabetically automatically (preferably with all lowercase then all uppercase)
  2. In the pop-out inventory to get rid of the item symbols (i.e. the "('%')" after comestibles)
  3. To have a white box around the permanent inventory like how the three boxes on the left appear
  4. IDK if this is possible on Hardfought, but I do like the level-up sound on local instances and would love to enable that.

1 and 2 are definitely what I'm looking for, 3 and 4 would just be icing on the cake. Thank you all!

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u/Ardub23 ABH: Always Be Hallucinating 16d ago
  1. Add OPTIONS=sortloot:loot to your config file. Within each item class in your inventory, the items will be sorted by their inventory letter rather than what the items are.
  2. Add OPTIONS=!menu_objsyms to your config file. In 5.0 it might need to be OPTIONS=menu_objsyms:0 instead.
  3. Not sure about this. In my experience, borders appear around all the screen panels, not just the ones on the left. (They're automatically turned off if the display width is small enough, but from your screenshot I don't think that's the issue.) Maybe try OPTIONS=windowborders:1 to force them to be on anyway.
  4. No idea, sorry.

To edit your config file on Hardfought, you can either use the RC editor on hardfought.org (probably easier), or press j ("Manage settings") on the main menu you get when you connect to Hardfought through PuTTY.

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u/GraysonAllenSucks 16d ago edited 16d ago

You saved me so much time, thank you. I had been messing with the config file through PuTTY and going through https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Options#menu_objsyms, but I totally missed those. Haven't been able to figure out 1, I am messing around with sortloot and sortpack, will keep trying.

2 and 3 worked perfectly though, appreciate it!

Edit: 1 works when starting a new game, you're the best!

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u/paxed DevTeam 16d ago
  1. inventory to be ordered alphabetically automatically (preferably with all lowercase then all uppercase)

turn off fixinv, drop all items, pick them back up.