On Friday 25 December 2015 19:22:18 Chris Morley wrote: > > Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 01:09:23 -0800 > > From: neilwhelc...@gmail.com > > To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Emc-developers] Moving closer to embedded > > > > Hello, > > One of the things that troubles me is that I am not seeing much work > > to make the Linuxcnc project feel like an embedded system. > > Can you explain exactly what you mean by embedded? > i think you mean like a fanuc or tormach where you turn on the > machine and that is all you can see. > > > To me, it just seems quite unprofessional to have a desktop looking > > environment that is running in a milling machine. Is there some > > reason that someone (other than me) has not worked up a distro that > > is purpose built to run EMC similar to the way the the folks at > > MyData made their stuff work? > > Distro work is a fairly painful and personal opinion work. > Nobody really likes to do it. Nobody is happy with all choices made. > It's necessary evil. > > > Is there some reason that the user interfaces do not have the > > features of an embedded system included such as a button to shutdown > > or reboot the system, or even an embedded mode that makes them take > > over the whole screen? > > take over the screen yes - gmoccapy any of gscreen and even AXIS can > (with a bit of work) Shutdown and reboot surely that can be added - > you are the first to ask about it that I know of. > > > For example, Gmoccapy has a feature in the settings to take over the > > whole screen, but it is an option that you can get to via the GUI. > > For this to be realistic, this option needs to be in a configuration > > file that you can not get to via the GUI. > > Gmoccapy and gscreen Industrial have that option page hidden behind a > security code. It would be easy to make it not pop the security code > dialog. > > I'm pretty sure you can have ubuntu load a program on startup, so > besides seeing Ububtu or debian start screen you could have your > screen start up directly. > > Chris M
ISTR that is called the Kiosk mode, Chris. Boots directly into the application. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
