On Friday 11 September 2015 12:06:23 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 :-) > > > 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 Thanks Nik, the whole alias has been added, after any previous ones it may have found. But I won't test it instantly as I left it sitting there running with all machine power turned off so it remembers where it is in the middle of a job, when my diabetic feet said it was quitting time. 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>