Am Freitag, 11. September 2015 schrieb Gerhard Zintel: > On Friday 11 September 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > On wheezy, running the newest r14.0.2 TDE I think, from the looks > > of the update done recently. > > > > I have several other machines, all running a wheezy sourced > > release, customized with a special pinned rtai patched kernel > > because the main application they run is linuxcnc. > > > > But they are running, generally, a simple XFCE interface. And that > > program runs as well as its configured to do, something I am in the > > middle of re-writing in an effort to fine tune the machines > > performance. > > > > One of the things I like to do is configure check from this nice > > comfy office chair is by running it over an ssh -Y login from here. > > > > But that has always been a problem child, a puzzling one because > > neither machine has in its environment, a setting for colors called > > FORGROUND or BACKGROUND. > > > > But its a showstopper, and only for linuxcnc, which contains tcl > > scripting that bails out of the program before the gui can be drawn > > on this screen. Other programs which use x run just fine, at least > > the ones I have tried. That includes gimp, but that machine has no > > gimp loadable files on it. > > > > pasted from the login screen: > > > > _tkinter.TclError: unknown color name "BACKGROUND" > > Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC... > > > > If it ever gets past that, it will do the same for the FOREGROUND > > color. BTDT but this machine was running an older ubuntu at the > > time. And its been long enough since I hacked around it that today > > I haven't a clue what I did then. > > > > Does anybody have any suggestions on how to deal with this? > > > > FWIW, the "simulated machine" version of that software runs just > > fine on this machine. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Gene, > > it might be due to the fact that I'm no native speaker but - I have no > clue what you are trying to do. Can you elaborate a bit more staight > forward? Where does your workflow stop during the process? What are > the command lines you are using? Up to what point it works and where > does it stop? And what has gimp to do with that all? > > Maybe others have more intuition with your description > Gerhard > > BTW: You are the Gene from LAU mailing list? > I'm no native speaker, but I know what Gene is talking about :-) Hi Gene! you may want to add this line on your remote machines .bashrc: xrdb -all -query|sed -e '\''s#[A-Z_]*BACKGROUND# gray90#'\'' -e '\''s#[A-Z_]*FOREGROUND# Black#'\'' -e '\''s#[A-Z_]*HIGHLIGHT#White#'\'' -e '\''s#[A-Z_]*LOWLIGHT# Black#'\''|xrdb -merge; This has to go in one line. It's just the part of the "alias"-line I sent you ages ago to make linuxcnc work on TDE :-) This is the line as an alias: alias linuxcnc='xrdb -all -query|sed -e '\''s#[A-Z_]*BACKGROUND# gray90#'\'' -e '\''s#[A-Z_]*FOREGROUND# Black#'\'' -e '\''s#[A-Z_]*HIGHLIGHT# White#'\'' -e '\''s#[A-Z_]*LOWLIGHT# Black#'\''|xrdb -merge; linuxcnc' Again, just one line :-) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA.