RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Reviving my mill (EMC)

one thing i was working on for a while was FVWM, a windowing system that
takes up around 5 meg of ram, and little disk space (not sure) it loads off
a text file for parameters, and can be set up without task bars or anything
really. One thing i was working on was loading a blank desktop with only
the tkemc window without a bar around it (so you couldnt move it, resize
it..etc...) i got most of it working... ---dave l

-----Original Message-----
From: William Scalione [mailto:wscalione@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:53 AM
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Reviving my mill (EMC)


Hi Ray,

I once did a linux install on my laptop and somehow cobbed it up, so when I
did a startx I got
X to start with no window manager, just X and a terminal window came up.
Typing startkde in the terminal window would then start kde. Anyway, what
I'm getting at is (I never tried this) could I have started TkEMC from the
terminal and run it without a window manager? That would save quite a bit of
space if you cant fit a wm



Bill

PS I have been real busy lately (new baby and lots of work) and have had no
time for further development of the touch screen GUI, Hope to get back to it
soon. I do use it on my machine though, when I find the time to run it.

>
> I'm with you in wanting a "wristwatch" version. The kernel, even with
> the real time extensions runs to less than a meg. If we left off the
> x-windows and windows managers, expanded the EMC's text mode interfaces
> with key bindings, and used multitasking terminals for viewing and
> working with the parts of a running system we should be able to build a
> compressed, run time binary that would fit on that 4 meg flash. I once
> made a compressed single personality version of the EMC code that fit on
> and ran from a floppy.
>
> I worked a bit with a SBC supplier who thought that we should be able to
> push it all into a 32 Meg flash and that included x-windows a window
> manager, tickle, and the EMC.

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