New GUI for embedded systems

Hey Grotius - I attached a picture of the TTY output that I get in normal launch (./launch) . The python errors are normal right now (until I resolve why they are occurring, probably the splash screen and axis tool changer or whatever trying to connect to X, which isn't running)

Everything between "Config loaded from '/etc/Xmotion/config.ini'" and "The framebuffer device was mapped to memory successfully."
is Xmotion talking, everything else is LinuxCNC. I notice from your screenshot that you have X running, You can have X running when you launch but you cannot be negotiated in X Mode (Alt-F7) when you launch it, otherwise X and Xmotion will try to write to the framebuffer at the same time and strange things will happen. Make sure a launch from a Virtual TTY (Like Alt-F1) so Xmotion can tell the kernel to go to K_GRAPHICS_MODE. When Xmotion is open, TTY switching won't be possible (Possibly will be added later)

Have you been able to get the GUI open at all?

As of the latest commit in the master branch today, the system is in working order and has run on a machine for 8 hours straight without any hiccups at all of any kind while cutting large nests of parts.

What version of LinuxCNC are you running now? Everything I've done has been with version 2.7.11 but it really shouldn't be very picky about version right now

In these dsy try to make an other ui in c++ because actually ui is good for ciPS machinery ... Less for me purpose. So I start from an rip-install from linuxcnc-dev folder and try to compile the simple example nml-position-logger.cc file. .... obtain crt1.o undefined reference for _start function error. Reading these post every c/c++ file in linuxcnc search for library or header included in ~usr/... and ~lib/ folder ..... using ls command can solve my error? Not expert about building and compiling so I need some suggest about.

Regards
Giorgio

Hi Travis,

I saw that you are developing a new GUI. It doesn't need to start the X service, it sounds great. But I can't start it.

As you said, I issued "make install", executed "cp config_example.ini /etc/Xmotion/config.ini", and used "DISPLAY = Xmotion" in linuxcnc ini. I wrote a script to execute my "linuxcnc ini"

Then I started it on the virtual TTY using the ROOT user. I set the display environment variable "export DISPLAY=:0.0" and executed "xhost +". The startup message looks fine, but I don't see the Xmotion screen. The entire screen is fixed, and the mouse and keyboard are also unresponsive and cannot be switched to other TTY. Do you know how to solve this problem?

This is the information for the entire splash screen:


Thanks,
David