LinuxCNC start, stop, pause buttons ?

In our shop, we run several CNC mills and lathes. These include Okuma, Tsugami, Fadel, and Daewo. Every one of these machines have prominent green start button and red stop/feed hold buttons, and a reset button that is less prominent

I wonder then, why the decision in LinuxCNC to make the red stup button the stop-and-reset button, instead of just feed hold.

You can just use the Pause button to temporarily pause / feed hold and then resume?

thadwald wrote: I wonder then, why the decision in LinuxCNC to make the red stup button the stop-and-reset button, instead of just feed hold.

You can make physical buttons any colour you want.

Also, LinuxCNC offers a range of user-interfaces. I think you are describing Axis, which is just one of them:

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/user/user-int...ical_user_interfaces

andypugh wrote: You can make physical buttons any colour you want.

Also, LinuxCNC offers a range of user-interfaces. I think you are describing Axis, which is just one of them:

I have tried Axis but decided to use GMOCCAPY.
I plan to make my physical buttons the colors I described. I am just curious about what led to that UI design in the first place. Does any commercial controller use this design?

The lingering issue is that I now have a big red stop/reset button on the screen, and a big red feed hold/pause physical button.

The colour scheme of any GUI seems to be decided by the GUI author, so only he would know.

I think that it should be fairly easy to change the colours of the buttons, if you want to.

Or you could do this. Examples are here on the forum



I think physical buttons are much better than the GUI ones