On Friday 25 August 2017 13:18:32 Les Newell wrote: > Thinking about it, I noticed this bug as well but completely forgot > about it. > > Les > All I wound up doing was applying that email to /usr/bin/axis.py. which was a copy of /usr/bin/axis. Then:patch -p1 axis.py <patch file. No errors.
renamed /usr/bin/axis to /usr/bin/axis.pyold, then renamed /usr/bin/axis.py to /usr/bin/axis. It works! > On 25/08/2017 18:13, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 25 August 2017 02:58:29 Andy Pugh wrote: > >>> On 24 Aug 2017, at 09:00, suavesteve <suavest...@hotmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> Just a thought, but after you applied the patch, you did rebuild / > >>> install? > >> > >> It would probably suffice to patch /use/bin/axis directly. > > > > The one helpfull patch applier I know about is kompare. But thats > > part of kde and that install drags in over 300 megabyte of kde for > > dependencies. > > > > This jessie/armhf install is just about the minimum lightdm version, > > enough to make X run albeit not uber-fawncy. > > > > So in that case, do I even have a gui for looking at .diff files? > > > > I found meld and installed it, but all it could do was copy the diff > > over the original file. Fortunately I had sense enough to make a > > backup. Since I had the backup, I renamed axis to axis.py, and let > > patch -p1 <0001-[tab] take a whack at it. The axis.py looked good > > in geany, so I copied it over axis and then ran linuxcnc -l again. > > I cannot see anything else effected by the patch, but I CAN now edit > > in the mdi box using the lft-rt-arrow keys to position the curser to > > where I want to edit. IOW, it works. > > > > Merge it please. > > > > Now if I can find whats resetting the key repeat interval from 200 > > ms and usable, back to 2ms the next morning without a reboot, that > > would be one more step to bliss. > > > > Since the wifi also feeds noise into the input circuit, and that > > path bypasses the usb2 pinhole, along with some I assume is from > > wlan0, which does go tru the pinhole, I added a couple turn off > > commands to /boot/config.txt to turn off bluetooth and wlan0, after > > giving up on finding the keyboard or mouse with the bluetoothctl > > utility. The keyboard and mouse seem to be considerably less subject > > to missed events. That took a cold reboot, and the keyboard was so > > bad it took me about 10 minutes worth of pecking to get the word > > "reboot" in the buffer, and to actually do it, keyboard except for > > the repeat speed, seems to be 100% now. > > > > Thanks everybody. > > > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>--- -------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the > >> world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! > >> http://sdm.link/slashdot > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-users mailing list > >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users