OPENARENA(6)

💖 OPENARENA 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the tea on openarena — it's a manual page from the Games Manual section (section 6, for the devs keeping score 👑), and it's literally just the OpenArena client. yes. that OpenArena. the free FPS. we're so back 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

openarena — the OpenArena client, aka your new main character era 🌈

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

openarena [-h|--help] [-q|--quiet] [+set option value]...

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so openarena is the client for the first-person shooter OpenArena. the end. short and iconic, no notes 🫶

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

the wrapper script that Debian uses to launch OpenArena accepts these options, bestie, and here they all are, no cap:

• -h, --help — shows you a short help summary. baby's first orientation tour ✨
• -q, --quiet — turns OFF all output. literally silence. not a peep 💀

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🦋 any console command can be a command-line option 🦋

okay so this is the fun part: any console command can be prefixed with + and used as a command-line option. hit Shift+Esc to pop open the in-game console (iykyk). and that includes:

• +set option value — set an option (there's a lil list below, but heads up: it is NOT complete 👀)
• +connect server[:port] — connect to a server. go make friends fr fr 🫶

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✨ options you can set with +set ✨

bestie, note that this is not a full list! just a lil taste 👑

• r_fullscreen <bool> — 1: play in fullscreen mode. 0: play in window mode. choose your fighter 🎮
• r_mode <num> — sets the screen resolution mode. set num to -1 to use a customized resolution. also go look at r_customheight and r_customwidth, they're in on this together fr fr. 👀
• r_customwidth <pixels> — use pixels as the width, but only if r_mode is set to -1. conditional queen 🎀
• r_customheight <pixels> — use pixels as the height, again only if r_mode is set to -1. the matching set, slay 💅

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✨ FILES ✨

• ~/.openarena/baseoa — configuration and state for OpenArena. this is where it keeps its stuff 🍓
• ~/.openarena/missionpack — configuration and state for the "missionpack" mod 🌸

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✨ ENVIRONMENT ✨

the wrapper script that launches OpenArena lets you debug it by setting environment variables. nerdy AND useful, we love a multitasker 💜

• OPENARENA_DEBUGGER=command — a debugger or any other prefix to prepend to the OpenArena command line, like strace, for example. but heads up: it gets overridden by OPENARENA_BACKTRACE 💀
• OPENARENA_BACKTRACE=1 — uses gdb(1) to grab a backtrace if OpenArena crashes. (the gdb package must be installed for this to actually work, so don't come for me if it doesn't 🙈)

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go read these too, bestie, they're the friend group:

• openarena-server(6)
• ioquake3(6)
• /usr/share/doc/openarena

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

OpenArena was written by the OpenArena Team 👑. the engine it runs on is a modified ioQuake3, which was originally created by id Software and is now maintained by the ioQuake3 community. legends only, periodt ✨

this manual page was written by Bruno "Fuddl" Kleinert <fuddl@debian.org> and Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but it may be used by others — sharing is caring 🫶).

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and that's a wrap on the OPENARENA(6) page, babes 🎀 dated 2010-10-15 in the Games Manual, brought to you by the Debian crew. go frag something, you absolute icon 💖✨🌈