XQF(6)

💖 XQF(6) — the games manual, but make it a group chat 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Games Manual section, entry XQF(6) 🎀 — this is literally the whole lore, let's go.

✨ NAME ✨

xqf — a 3D action game launcher and server browser 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xqf [options]

like, that's it. that's the whole vibe. you run it, you pass it stuff, it slays.

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

So XQF is a 3D action game server browser (we're talking Quake, its sequels, its derivatives, the whole extended universe 💅). It uses X, it's written with GTK+ 2, and it uses QStat in the backend to go retrieve all that server info. periodt.

With XQF you can search for Quake, Quake 2/3/4, Quake World, Doom 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Hexen 2, Hexen World, Heretic 2, Sin, Half-Life, Kingpin, Soldier of Fortun 1/2, Tribes 2, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2003/2004, Rune, Descent 3, Call of Duty, NetPanzer, Unvanquished, Xonotic, Smokin'Guns, Warsow, Alien Arena, Urban Terror, Open Arena, World of Padman, ZEQ2 Lite, Enemy Territory:Legacy, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy and many others. the way that list just keeps going?? iconic. 😭

You can look at lots of information about the servers. XQF can spawn your client into a selected server with customized options (main character energy, honestly). You can also apply filters while searching for servers — trimming full or empty servers, for example. obsessed. 🫶

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

XQF accepts several command line parameters:

• --launch [SERVERTYPE] IP — adds the server specified with IP (e.g. 10.10.0.1:27666) to the favorites, queries it and launches the game. XQF tries to automatically determine the correct game based on the port. If the autodetections fails XQF will ask you for the game. Alternatively you may directly specify the game type on the command line (e.g. Q3S). 🔥
• --add [SERVERTYPE] IP — adds the specified server to the favories and queries it. Basically the same as --launch except that the game is not launched ;-) 🙈
• --debug level — set the specified debug level. Use this if you experience problems with XQF. Level 3 is usually sufficient for debugging most problems. Higher levels product lots of output. 💀
• --version — prints the version of XQF. ✨

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• qstat(1).
• /usr/share/doc/xqf

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🌈 HOMEPAGE 🌈

• http://linuxgames.com/xqf/
• https://github.com/XQF/xqf

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

XQF is Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Roman Pozlevich.

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📜 HISTORY 📜

This manual page was written by Jordi Mallach and Thomas Debesse for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

XQF was written by Roman Pozlevich <roma@botik.ru>, and maintained by Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>, Thomas Debesse <xqf@illwieckz.net>, Bill Adams <bill@evilbill.org>, Alex Burger <alex_b@users.sourceforge.net> and Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de>.

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and that's the whole page bestie 💜 it's dated October 10, 2014, and it came from the XQF(6) source — so go forth, launch some servers, and slay 💅✨🌸