On Friday 11 September 2015 11:42:01 Gerhard Zintel wrote: > 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? Basically, trying to run a program that uses x graphics, with the x being exported to this machine. Any other graphical output program runs fine, but not Linuxcnc. > Where does your workflow stop during the process? I am dead in the water because I'd have to dress and walk across the back yard & up the hill to get to the building where the machine is just to test my code. At 2AM, doable without dressing, but the noise of the doors will wake my lady. So I just say to heck with it and go find my bed, not knowing if what I just wrote works or not. Being an 81 yop diabetic, I am up at 2 or 3 hour intervals in the night anyway. > 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? > Other than to prove the x remoting works, nothing. > Maybe others have more intuition with your description > Gerhard > > BTW: You are the Gene from LAU mailing list? > A chance, I occasionally expound on something there. Not recently though. 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>