Good morning everybody; I am running TDE on this box, and am quite happy with it.
The wm, I think its xfce, on the real machines, suffers from a utility for this, and a utility for that, that winds up having poor control of screen usage, tieing up two vertical spaces for all its buttons, none of which seem to register their presence with the wm so that LCNC is prevented from underlaying them, which when it occurs, screws things up because you must alt+ click on the lcnc window and drag its top bar out from under the wm's toys in order to gain access to the lcnc menu pulldowns hidden under the wm's bs. I have a congenital distate for gnome with its difficult, never does what you ask, configuration interface. So on your machines with limited horsepower like the atoms, what wm/gui family are you folks using? While "taking it easy" after some spinal block shots in my lower back yesterday, I am considering installing TDE R14.0.02 on the Dell Dimension 745 that runs the new mill, but I have doubts the atom boards can handle that on the toy mill before I install a 5i25 on it, which is still waiting to be installed as all that is definitely on a shelf, above my comfortable reach, at least till I find out what my back can be trusted to do for the next few days/weeks. And at $140 bucks for one of those Dell Dimension 745's w/o a drive in it, its very tempting to buy 2 more, that dealer has plenty of them. Dead stable machines. Without a UPS on it, its been up 29 days now. Thats (the toy mills conversion for more speed and power) a three-pronged rebuild as I will remove the 28 volt supply from the controller/driver box and substitute a 42 volt bank of switchers for it. 5 ea, 3.3 amp modules set at 42 volts, with .47 ohm current sharing R's between them and the common 42 volt line. That also means I'll have to round up a 5 volt supply to run the BOB and other logic with. Basically thats first, make it run again, then reconfigure for the 5i25. A spindle encoder would be nice, but thats awaiting a bigger motor, the 400 watter I took out of the lathe, and a whole new drive. With a lowered mount by removing the gearhead box & starting from the sled casting, a sliding mount for two step timing pulley drive, likely fabricated on site. What v belt or o-ring belt drives I've seen look like slip-o-matics to me. And slippage means stalls and broken tooling. Not good. Too many plans, not enough me left. Darnit. But I can fiddle with software from a chair. And the existing gui isn't exactly what I want. Particularly on the GO704. Thats an underlay nuisance I'd like to get rid of. Presently I have moved both "bars" to the bottom of the screen, but that wastes screen space too. Also, I am using an old (new in 2007 as the hidef was coming online slowly) samsung 22" hidef tv (ccfl backlight) with a bad tuner as its monitor, and dpms isn't working. Is that endemic to that category of monitors? Only fixable by throwing money at it? FWIW, I have not tried to use "xset dpms time time time" to set the times, its possible only the screen blanker time is set by default. Since I can't do that from here over the network, I'll have to both be at that machine AND remember it. At my years, thats a trick. :( I can't for obvious reasons, open the 0.0 display from here. 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-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users