Touchy

tjamscad wrote: With the current release Wheezy what do you use for an editor. On the Ubuntu versions we used gedit which would allow you to reload the tool table to make sure that tool length was picked up.

It sounds like you are editing the tool table? In that case, why not use tooledit?

linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gui/tooledit.html

Tool edit does not work with touchy

Are you saying that it doesn't actually work, or that it is hard to operate with a touch screen?
There isn't a menu option to open it, but neither is there one to open mousepad or gedit.

You can edit existing entries in Touchy using the MDI tab and the G10 command (and I frequently do) But that will not allow you to add new tools.

I do not know how you would open it with out being in the axis GUI.

I would think you could make a gladevcp button to open it.

tjamscad wrote: I do not know how you would open it with out being in the axis GUI.

How do you open gedit?

As the manual page I linked to says, you can open it from the command-line. Or you could create a launcher and/or menu item for it.