Axis Modifications

I am having an odd issue related to (ti seems) jessie and Gome/cinnamon.

Axis opens minimized it seems - or at least you cannot see it. It shows up in the task bar and you can alt-tab to it. (or click on the task bar )

I have tried all the above. It effects the size of axis - but axis still isn't visible until you click on the task bar or alt-tab to it.

Couple of things
-axis seems to be the only gui that shows this behavior.
-I also have mate installed - axis opens normally.

sam

Not sure, maybe an OpenGL problem.

I have LMDE with the Cinnamon desktop installed in a VM and Linuxcnc/Axis is not having those problems for me.

However I have done a few RIP installs of Linuxcnc from source on that VM, so it has had a lot of dependency stuff installed to it that a fresh install from binaries probably wouldn't have..

This is 2 different systems.. My laptop which I have been running for months with jessie/mate - and a fresh install of jessie running cinnamon right out of the box (matsuura). I installed cinnamon on my laptop to see if that acted the same and it did. I just tried for grins booting a 3x non-realtime kernel - same deal. It is just odd.

sam

heh - let me explain.

Axis runs just fine on both systems. (am running rt_preemt and uspace with mesa hardware)

The problem is with gnome/cinnamon when axis is first launched it doesn't show up. It is running - just looks minimized. I can alt-tab to it or click on the task bar to bring it up.

sam

I am running Axis 2.7.8.

I found the axis.tcl located in
/usr/share/axis/tcl/
I've made some modifications to it....I'd like to change the source...

Where can I find the axis.py?

Hi everyone, I'm sorry I'm not a computer programmer but I like to try to modify things. I managed to get the axis.tcl file to zoom in the jog buttons, but I find it hard to figure out where to change the values.
Since all the original Axis GUI is all right, and since the machine controls the whole thing with external buttons, I'd like to eliminate what's missing.
Is there anyone who can explain how to intervene?
Is there any IDE that interprets the code so you can grab it graphically?
Thank you for your suggestions.

I would like to know which user coordinate system (UCS) is in effect at a glance from the F3 window without having to parse it out of a list of all other G-code states.

Has anyone done this? Thank you.

Originally, I thought I might have a separate 'linuxcnctop' window open, but it too requires the UCS 'G5n' to be fished out of a list of 'g-codes.'

"How hard would it be" :^) to change the color of the Live Plot from red (in my case) to "transparent?"

That way I could still see progress as lines disappeared, but also have a clearer view of the remaining work to be done.

Thank you.