Jack Coats wrote: >If you had another machine somewhere with a graphics display, even a >Winders box running an >X server, the X client (on the EMC) machine could display there. > >I think what you are asking is can you run without X at all? Someone >else will have to answer that >definitively, but I think it currently needs AXIS running somewhere. > Nope. AXIS is just one of several user interfaces available. It's probably the most actively maintained, and I happen to like it the most, but it's not required. (in fact, you don't have to use a computer UI at all, apparently halui can function as the DISPLAY program)
> It >would be nice if there was >a character (CURSES?) based version without the nice 'display' of the >real time motion. And possibly >there is, I just don't know about it. > > That's what the question was about: keystick - one of the terminal based user interfaces ;) >Or were you wanting to run 'headless', without Axis or equivalent at >all? (I think of something >like the CarveWright, that you can't do much more than stop/start it, >everything else is pre-canned >on another machine!) > >Carl Helquist wrote: > > >>I would like to run keystick without starting an X display >>environment. Is this possible? I have searched the documentation, and >>looked at the contents of some of the scripts that start up EMC2 in a >>graphical environment. But so far I am not doing very well. I may very >>well be overlooking something very obvious. >> >> You may want to set up a more standard set of init scripts. Ubuntu and other Debian-based systems use both runlevels 2 and 3 as "multi-user, graphical" levels. "Standard" UNIX usually uses runlevel 2 as "networked, non-graphical". To prevent X from running, you can disable GDM from running by renaming the file S##gdm to K##gdm (I don't know what the ## will be, but it's a 2-digit number) I don't recall how much more you need to remove, that may be all. You should probably change the DISPLAY to "keystick" in some config and try it in a gnome terminal before fiddling with your system configuration. If you're in a console login and don't want X to load when you run EMC2, you need to specify the path to the ini file on the command line. (I don't know the specific syntax, I never do this ;) ) If you last ran a keystick-using config (even in a gnome terminal), you can also type "emc -l" (no quotes) to run the last used configuration. I believe (but I'm not positive) that this will bypass the graphical config chooser. >>Why would I want to do this? I don't know, I was just playing around >>with the machine and got the idea that it would be an interesting >>goal. Some of the recent messages on this board re: minimal >>installations of EMC2 were probably the primary inspiration. >> >> Experimentation is good :) Hopefully keystick has kept up with the changes. Not many people use it, so it may have bitrotted some. - Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
