gtans(6)

📦 version 1.99.0, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💖 NAME 💖

gtans — a Tangram game for X, bestie. Yes it's literally a whole vibe.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gtans [no options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so gtans is a tangram game that runs in X 🦋. Tangram is that puzzle game where you gotta arrange a set of pieces so they match a given shape. That's it. That's the whole thing. Iconic behavior honestly.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • No command-line options — literally none, bestie, there is nothing to pass here 🙈
  • Use the graphical interface to customize the program. See below 👇

🌸 USAGE 🌸

move the pieces (they're known as tans, iykyk) until they match the figure drawn on the right window ✨. You must always use the seven tans and they should not be laid on top of one another. Like, that's the rule, periodt.

To move a tan, click and drag it with the left mouse button 🫶. For rotation, click AROUND it. You can flip the selected tan by right-clicking. This is useful for the parallelogram tan (all positions can not be reached by rotating only) — no cap, some spots are just unreachable otherwise 💀.

If you are a beginner to Tangram you should try the first 10 figures. The other ones are not sorted, some of them are very difficult (to my taste) 😭.

When a figure has been solved the background color of the silhouette area changes 👑. The solved figures are remembered by saving a status file in the user's directory (~/.gtans/afile.figures.status for a figure file called afile.figures). Your progress is literally being kept, bestie.

🌈 Show a tan

This button shows the position of a tan. Each further click will display an other tan. Little peek, little hint, we love to see it 🙈.

🌈 Show outline

Draw the figure in the main area. This makes the game much easier. It's giving cheat code but it's a built-in one, so it's fine 💅.

🌈 Preferences

Most of this menu's options allow you to change the colors used by the game 🎨. For the main area you may choose textures (pixmap files) instead of colors. Some sample files are supplied (I can't remember where I found them) but as the complete pathname is saved in the config file you can choose a file located anywhere (for example in /usr/share/pixmaps/). On a 8 bits display the colors may not be exactly what you want (GTK tries to find the best matching color). Rude of the display honestly, but GTK is doing its best 🫶.

🌟 Preferences/Tans size/Increase

Makes the tans 5 % bigger relatively to the game area. If you resize the window the tans size will be scaled.

🌟 Preferences/Tans size/Decrease

Makes the tans 4.76 % smaller. Yes, a different number than the increase, don't come for me, that's just what it is 💀.

🌟 Preferences/Accuracy

Changes the precision of the comparison between the tans position and the solution. A lower accuracy makes the game more easy. So if you're struggling, dial that down, no shame 🍓.

🌟 Preferences/Rotation

Step by step allows only rotation by increment of 11.5 degrees. Continuous rotation makes the game more difficult and you probably shouldn't use it unless you really dislike step by step rotation.

fr fr, the manpage itself is telling you continuous rotation is not it. Listen to the manpage. 👑

🌟 Preferences/Figures file

Allows you to choose another figures file 📂.

🌟 Preferences/Save config

Save a config file in the user's home directory.

🌟 Misc/Clear figure status

Set the current figure as unsolved. Undo your slay, if you must 🙈.

🌟 Misc/Clear all figures status

Set all the loaded figures (i.e. from the current figure file) as unsolved. Full reset, starting fresh, main character energy ✨.

🦋 FILES 🦋

  • ~/.gtans/.gtansrc — Configuration options for gtans. All of these options can be set from the interface, there should be no need to edit this file. So like, don't touch it, bestie, the GUI has you covered 💅.
  • ~/.gtans/somename.figures.status — Status files (for each figures file the user played with) remenbering which figures where solved. Your receipts, basically 🧾.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The author of gtans is Philippe Banwarth <bwt@users.sourceforge.net> — thank you king, we are obsessed 🌈

okay and that's the whole page bestie, from the Games Manual, gtans(6), dated February 2000 — old but iconic, and still serving puzzle realness. go solve some tans 💖🎀🦋

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