Am 30.11.2015 um 15:57 schrieb Gene Heskett: > Greetings all; > > One of the things I always have to do, usually from another tab of the > same terminal window that I run "linuxcnc -l" from, is to remember to > also do a "xset -dpms" to shut off the screen blanker & monitor off > commands. If I forget (way too easy for me) and the job is a long > running job, its frustrating to have to go tap the space bar or wave the > mouse around to bring it back to life. > > How hard would it be to incorporate that into the successful launch of > linuxcnc, issueing an "xset -dpms" as it sits and waits for the exit > cleanup, and again at shutdown after the cleanup, by haveing the > script /usr/bin/linuxcnc issue a fresh "xset +dpms";"xset dpms time1 > time2 time3", where the times might be read from a . file in the users > ~/HOME directory? > > If this needs controlled because some of us never use the blanker in the > first place, perhaps a KEYWORD in the .ini file could be used to switch > this on/off? > > Perhaps maximum versatility would be to "dot source" a pair of files, > doing nothing if they do not exist? The startup could set really long > delays so they would kick in if one just walks away while its running, > or the usual short delays when its been shut down. > > A first glance at /usr/bin/linuxcnc looks like it could be doable, but I > haven't a good clue as to exactly where in it to do it. > > Comments? Suggestions? > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Hay Gene,
why don't you use a normal bash script to run all programs and load then linuxcnc. I do that if i want to run master, than I need to do first a . ./scripts/rip-environment, so I just make a script to do taht for me and then it starts linuxcnc. Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
