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>

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