System usage

Details Pertaining to the Usage of the System

Just going to write a bunch of stuff here for now and sort it into something more digestible later on...

Starting the acquisition

The acquisition computer is located at digios1.onenet and we are using the logon name and password of dgs

ssh -X [email protected]

Note that on logon it will say dgs@helios1, this should be modified to match digios1.

The working directory of the acquisition gui is

/global/devel/systems/helios

and is based off of the mobacq directory.

To bring up the gui

heliosCommander

using _editable if you know what you are doing.

This will bring up the edm 1-12-3 (on helios1)' window as well as the RunControl gui. If it does not see Known Issues below. This script will also set environment variables such as

export EDMOBJECTS=/global/devel/extensions/dgs1/src/edm/setup
export EDMHELPFILES=/global/devel/extensions/dgs1/src/edm/helpFiles
export EDMBASE=/global/devel/extensions/dgs1/src/edm
export EDM=/global/devel/extensions/dgs1/src/edm/edmMain/O.linux-x86/edm
export EDMPVOBJECTS=/global/devel/extensions/dgs1/src/edm/setup
export EDMFILES=/global/devel/extensions/dgs1/src/edm/setup
export EDMDATAFILES=$EDMDATAFILES:/global/devel/systems/helios/edm/screens
export EDMSCRIPTS=/global/devel/systems/helios/edm/scripts

Note that the EDMSCRIPTS location is where most of the scripts called through the gui run from.

On RunControl gui select TS/Setup->SoftIOC to boot SoftIOC. This calls a script called terminals with option 1.

terminals 1

Link to terminals script

Known Issues

If error Fonts did not load, or something along these lines, then type following to fix

xset fp+ /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi