Well that was a long journey down a rabbit hole. I can totally understand why a number of people on a local metal working group rave about ACORN CNC.
Trying to get gmoccapy to be functional was a huge headache. This document reads more like a dictionary or a encyclopedia rather than a getting started. The youtube videos assume everything works including the keyboard. Hmm. Doesn't show up The gmoccapy has the word 'keyboard' in the document. "It has support for integrated virtual keyboard (onboard or matchbox-keyboard)" but doesn't say how to get it. After many google searches with the search terms including 'keyboard' I finally found a link that explained how to get a keyboard. "sudo apt install matchbox-keyboard" and "sudo apt install onboard" work. Trouble is, my fingers are way too big for the 10.1" 1280x800 screen buttons. Even my cellphone has bigger buttons but only just. Adjusting say jog speed isn't done by dragging a slider but a large bar takes up a lot of screen space and the two tiny increment/decrement arrows are almost invisible. Where AXIS is somewhat intuitive this one makes no sense to me. Want to look graphically at a g-code file? First Power ON has to be green. Then you have to go through and make all the axis homed so the DRO values are green instead of red. Finally the MDI and Program buttons are enabled and then at the bottom left is the open file button that brings up what appears to be an unchangeable presentation of the files. Would look better if all the .ngc files were restricted to two letter file names. So for me gmoccapy gets tossed into the trash bin. Maybe it should be called gmocrappy. Sorry. I get frustrated when I waste this many hours trying to get something working. John
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