Shopbot Window Manager

[Tim Pegg]

To whoever changed the window manager on the shopbot to a more traditional one: THANK YOU!!!

[Bitreaper]

That would be me.  I was training Jay and Andrew B. on the shopbot and the desktop interface kept getting in the way.  So we tested out signing in with the Xfce interface which was available on the login screen.  After seeing that it was still there, we updated the default.  Gnome is still there should you want it, and it's able to be picked when you login from a dropdown box near the login button.  But for usability sake for the larger audience, I made the decision to switch it back to Xfce.

Three things got fixed with this:

1. Gnome's activities was a bit too eager to activate when moving the mouse into the upper corner of the application (like when you're doing estop, or power, or homing).  This kept causing problems especially as we were using the software.  I couldn't quickly find where to turn off that behavior
2. Terminal wasn't setup in the default activities, and I wasn't sure where to put it for all users to have that as an option.  We either needed a terminal icon, or a LinuxCNC icon.  Again, I could have learned, but it seemed easier to switch to a known interface.
3. When launching LinuxCNC under Gnome, it seemed to launch with the main window of the Axis Gui in the background.  This was sub-optimal, but when Seb and I were working on it last summer and wrote the Operations we didn't know why it was doing this or how to fix it, so we just put instructions on how to work around it (Alt-Tab to the window, easy enough fix, but still annoying and one-more-nuance-to-remember).  Under Xfce it just pops up as it normally would with no issues.

B.