---
name: "glob2"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "glob2"
version: "0.9.4.4-8"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/glob2"
---

# glob2(6)

Real Time Strategy Game

## NAME

glob2 — Real Time Strategy Game

## SYNOPSIS

**glob2** \[**-h** \]  \[**-f** \]  \[**-r** \]  \[**-s***640x480\]  \[***-a** *\]  \[***-b** *\]  \[***-l** *\]  \[***-t** *\[01\]\]  \[***-d** */home/foo/bar\]  \[***-u** *jack\]  \[***-host** *MapName\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the* **glob2** *command.*

*This manual page was written for the* **Debian** *distribution* *because the original program does not have a manual page.*

**glob2** *is a Real Time Strategy game, which can be compared* *with Warcraft and also Sims-games family. The primary aim of the game is to kill your opponents,* *just like in Warcraft-like games, and the whole control is processed through buildings, not* *units, as in Sims-games family.*

## OPTIONS

- **--help**

  *Show summary of options.*

- **-s** *resolutionxdepth*

  *Set resolution and optionally depth (for instance: -s640x480 or -s640x480x32).*

- **-f/-F**

  *Set/clear full screen.*

- **-r/-R**

  *Set/clear resizable window.*

- **-g/-G**

  *Enable/disable OpenGL acceleration (GPU use).*

- **-c/-C**

  *Enable/disable custom cursor.*

- **-l**

  *Low quality graphics: disable some transparency effects.*

- **-h**

  *High quality graphics: maximum of transparency effects.*

- **-v** *level*

  *Set the music volume (between 1 and 256).*

- **-m/-M**

  *Mute/unmute the sound (both music and speech).*

- **-d** *directory*

  *Add a directory to the directory search list.*

- **-u** *username*

  *Specify a username.*

- **-host** *MapName*

  *Run Globulation 2 as a game host text-only server.*

- **-y** *hostname*

  *Specify an alternative hostname for YOG server.*

- **-host** *map\_file \[YOG\_username\] \[YOG\_password\]*

  *Run only as a YOG game host text-based server.*

- **-nox** *game\_file*

  *Run the game without using the X server.*

- **-vs** *name*

  *Save a videoshot as name.*

- **-version**

  *Print the version and exit.*

## AUTHOR

*This manual page was written by Vincent Deffontaines \<vincent@gryzor.com\>* *and David Martinez Moreno \<ender@debian.org\> for* *the* **Debian** *system (but may be used by others).  Permission is* *granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under* *the terms of the GNU Free Documentation* *License, Version 1.1 as published by the Free* *Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover* *Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.*