PathPilot when gui is running how to get back to desktop

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25 Jun 2022 13:11 #245853 by Clive S
As the tittle:  PathPilot  when gui is running how to get back to desktop.

Using ADMIN HALSHOW which shows on the PP gui
Then accidently clicking on the gui the HALSHOW window disappears behind.

How to get back to it ?? or is it not possible?

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25 Jun 2022 13:31 #245854 by snowgoer540
Ctrl + Alt + X will get you a terminal prompt.  Then type "mate-panel".

Though, any time you click on the GUI, it's going to take you back to full screen.
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25 Jun 2022 14:00 #245855 by Clive S

Ctrl + Alt + X will get you a terminal prompt.  Then type "mate-panel".

Though, any time you click on the GUI, it's going to take you back to full screen.  


Thanks Greg I can live with that as I can click on the halshow tab and that brings it back to the front.
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30 Dec 2022 17:16 #260554 by snowgoer540

Using ADMIN HALSHOW which shows on the PP gui

Hey Clive, just was curious how you got HALSHOW to work on PathPilot. When I try here I get an error that the file isn't found. Was hoping you had an easy solution before I spent time going down a rabbit hole :)

HALMETER works as does HALSCOPE, but not HALSHOW :(

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31 Dec 2022 14:03 #260642 by Clive S
Greg I am away for a couple of days I will have a look when I get back

Happy New year
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31 Dec 2022 16:55 #260661 by snowgoer540
No worries; thank you!

Happy New Year to you as well!

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09 Jan 2023 22:32 #261387 by Clive S

No worries; thank you!

Happy New Year to you as well!


Greg. is this what you a looking for:-

To add HALSHOW it requires you to place halshow.tcl in ~/tmc/tcl/bin and edit ~/tmc/bin/halshow change:-
#!/usr/bin/tclsh8.6 and source ~/home/operator/repos/pathpilot3/linuxcnc/tcl/bin/halshow.tcl
to #!/usr/bin/tclsh8.6 and source ~/tmc/tcl/bin/halshow.tcl

Then ADMIN HALSHOW in the MDI should work.

If I remember I think you can get halshow.tcl from any standard linuxcnc version
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10 Jan 2023 00:07 - 10 Jan 2023 00:09 #261396 by snowgoer540

Greg. is this what you a looking for:-


Yessir it sure is; thank you very much!

place halshow.tcl in ~/tmc/tcl/bin


I missed that a "bin" directory needed to be created to place it in... I had placed halshow.tcl in ~tmc/tcl. I see now it needs to be inside "bin" to work.

Works great. Thanks again.

I have been sitting on a clearpath servo kit with a v1.5 board for over a year that I got for a great price. I finally retrofitted my Series 3 machine, using the 7i85s that was already on it from the spindle encoder (and a little help from Peter with using the encoders as inputs). I have some other tinkering I want to do and HALSHOW will make it a lot easier.
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10 Jan 2023 00:29 - 10 Jan 2023 00:29 #261398 by snowgoer540
Just a note for anyone who stumbles onto this, if you use the latest halshow.tcl located here: 

github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/tree/master/tcl/bin

Then you also need to place cbutton.tcl into the ~/tmc/tcl/bin folder as well for halshow to work.
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