startup program

so, i'm very close to my ultimate goal of having a one button startup for my machine. you press "ON" and the computer turns on, boots up, emc starts, and is ready to be homed.

I'm struggling a little bit with having emc start maximized.... but i'm more perturbed by something else...

i changed the axis.ngc to a useful program. however, it lives in a horrible location. I would like to change the startup up program in emc to one of the programs in my local programs folder. its a pain to have to find the programs folder every time i edit or change.

help? thoughts?

thank you,
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to get AXIS to start full screen you need to look at devils pie.
look here:
ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/07/25/how-to-s...ow-effects-in-gnome/
I havent tried it - let me know if you do.

here is gui for it :
code.google.com/p/gdevilspie/

I just tried it and it works.

Maybe we should add this to AXIS'S FAG hey big John

Take a look here...

www.linuxcnc.org/component/option,com_ku...6/lang,english/#1686

Rick G

Allright, thanks for the input. I have a new start program, which is great. HOwever, I am having a really hard time with this devils pie business... I installed the GUI, but I don't think it works under dapper drake. Thanks for the help, more ideas on window max at startup would be appreciated.

I found the devils pie for dapper version .1 something, but I can't seem to install it. I can hand the ./configure command and it goes well, but the "make" command seems to do nothing in terminal. do you not use terminal for this?


thanks,
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what does make say after you enter it.
I am using 8.04

ok, so ignore what this post used to be. i chased each error, and downloaded and installed the missing packages, in the ./configure until it configured correctly, however, now the "make" seems to fail, and the make error says something about a missing colon in the source code, which is not something i want to deal with. I think i will give on on devils pie v.0.16 and see if i can get the GUI to work in dapper.

all right, forget all this. i've been at it for three hours, and I'm done. I'm going to see if I can upgrade to heron.

man.

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i use emc on lucid lynx at home, but I thought it was a beta? is it now considered a stable version? maybe i'll just do that, since i know lucid better than these older versions...

Thanks,
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