Mikethespark wrote: 0.059 Initialised video: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE

How much RAM does that have? 256MB?

Have LC_ALL=garbage in the environment or otherwise broken locale settings. Try saving the game. When using the GUI you get a message box saying "locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid" and the game is not saved. The headless server dies with $ LC_ALL=garbage ./factorio --create ...

Hey did you accidentally fix this? On 0.12 WM_CLASS now seems to be already set when the window is opened. This isn't due to a change on my end since I can still reproduce the described behaviour with 0.11.

How about drawing obscured health bars half-transparent on top of other things? Doesn't look that bad and still shows useful information.

Sure you're actually using the right version then? $ ./factorio --version Version: 0.12.2 (Build 16229, linux64) Binary version: 64 Map input version: 0.9.0-0 Map output version: 0.12.2-4 $ ./factorio --help General options: -h [ --help ] display help --version show version information -c [ --config...

SHiRKiT wrote:Really? I was thinking that the headless version would work without graphics/UI, and I was thinking of purchasing a VPS just to have a 24/7 server running, prone to biter destruction. That made me so sad =\

Well there's this solution with the fake libs...

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/download/file.php?id=5000 Thats what I call a "root directory" Ah, ok. The world seems to disagree with you though. and without root you are not able to write to this directory. Indeed. So put the game there as root, then execute it from there as user. Bu...

You do not need anything like that, just follow the guide on the wiki https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Multiplayer#Linux Since 0.12.2 you cans tart factorio with '--start-server <save_name>' and it will start in headless mode without any of the previous hackish solutions. How so? In...

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13536 The fake lib workaround is really ugly though, if the libs aren't needed they shouldn't be linked against in the first place. A separate binary sounds like the most reasonable solution to me. Trying to dlopen libX11 and friends when a G...

You could but "/opt" is a root directory and outside of a protected environment. It would be more secure to run it from a users home directory. But do as you wish :D I don't follow. What do you understand by "root directory" and "protected environment"? Does that also ...

Bytenex wrote:PLEASE! Do not advise people to put programs to "/opt". A software should always be run from a dedicated user. Running from "/opt" would require to run the server as root (which is always a bad idea).

Uhm what? I'm pretty sure I can execute binaries in /opt as user.

What could you possibly want to use logistic robots for if you don't have any provider and requester chests?

You need to use --start-server instead of --mp-load-game.

If you're concerned about bloat... echo 'void*XOpenDisplay(){return 0;}int XInitThreads(){return 1;}' > x.c && cc -shared -o libX11.so.6 x.c && touch empty.c && for i in libXext.so.6 libXfixes.so.3 libXrender.so.1 libGL.so.1 libXcursor.so.1; do cc -shared -o $i empty.c; done ...

NoPantsMcDance wrote:regardless seems more of a problem with your host and not the factorio guys themselves.

Linking against all that X stuff when it's not needed is an issue with Factorio.

No need to install stuff as root, just put those libs in some user-writable directory and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH at it.
(Not linking against unnecessary libs would be the nicer solution of course)

You just want to display some message at the start of the game in your mod? Use game.showmessagedialog in the onplayercreated event, look at the freeplay control.lua how it's done there. If you already have some code that's not working, post it here so we can look at it.

Maybe try game.oninit instead.