X11

X11 is a GUI of NetHack, mainly used on unix-type operating systems. If your copy of NetHack has that compiled in, you can enable it by setting OPTIONS=windowtype:X11 in your config file.



X11 can do both tile-graphics and ASCII.

If you do not have any X11 resources set for NetHack, all windows will be black text on white background, and this makes playing almost impossible, unless you turn off color.

List of some of the X resources NetHack accepts:

Some good values would be for example

NetHack*background:            black NetHack*foreground:            grey NetHack*map*background:        black NetHack*map*black:             grey25 NetHack*map*red:               red3 NetHack*map*green:             green3 NetHack*map*brown:             DarkOrange3 NetHack*map*blue:              blue3 NetHack*map*magenta:           magenta3 NetHack*map*cyan:              cyan3 NetHack*map*gray:              gray70 NetHack*map*orange:            yellow NetHack*map*bright_green:      green NetHack*map*yellow:            yellow NetHack*map*bright_blue:       blue NetHack*map*bright_magenta:    magenta NetHack*map*bright_cyan:       cyan NetHack*map*white:             white