On Friday 11 September 2015 17:06:23 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> 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 :-)

Yes - it was technical knowledge that was required, not linguisitic knowledge.
You have that in spades, Nik. :-)

> 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