Phil,

Check your settings. I use a mouse for the GUI screen. Right click the task bar on an unused space, select panel settings, select advanced. Properties, check both make window managers treat the panel as dock and Reserve space. I think that should do what you want.

John Bauchiero
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James,

In general, it isn't possible to reestablish the connection for some
devices. A lot of it is the drivers of devices themselves and how JMRI
binds things together. A few things like network connections have the
idea from the start that the physical layer may have to
restart/reconnect. Most other things never had that as a design
feature.

Also having JMRI sit there playing are you there isn't a great use of
computing power. All sorts of internal things are cleaned up only on
the exit and later restart of JMRI. That's just the cleaner and safer
way.

-Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team
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www.fingerlakeslivesteamers.org
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Ok Thanks Ken and Dave. Being the single operator I was _not_ trying to emulate a prototypical system but instead make something as a layout visual. More reading to do then if I am to use multi-headed SML masts. Since all of my physical masts and dwarfs are single headed, I’ll start with single headed high masts for traffic until I add multi-head masts when I understand rolling everything together, blocks and turnouts.

John,

Your NH$ heads would be what you place into an IF$shsm:... thing.

-Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team
www.jmri.org
www.fingerlakeslivesteamers.org
www.cnymod.com

I don't know which window manager is used by default with the LX desktop used
with the RPi, but it might be possible to tell the window manager to have the
property "always on top" associated with lxpanel windows (what yoy are calling
the taskbar is a lxpanel). Since *I* don't use the default window manager, I
don't know how it is configured. (I always install my window manager of
choice: fvwm2. And generally re-configure the desktop to something very
different from the stock default.)

At Sun, 15 Sep 2024 19:49:14 +0100 [email protected] wrote:

Maybe this is the way things are, but it's irritating if so

I'm running Steve Todds JMRI image on a RasPi and I've noticed that when
you move open windows around, they are "in front" of the task bar and
not behind it

And not just JMRI windows, but that's the primary use

Is there a setting i'm missing somewhere that allows windows to slide
"behind" the taskbar??

Phil G

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John B,

The bulk of the signal mast logic systems have aspects that refer to
the turnout as part of the aspect. Generally labeled diverging and
usually another word of two like diverging approach or diverging slow.
Physically using a dwarf combined with a high mast is not something in
most if not any of the systems. Can you roll your own, yes. But that's
a lot more work. Also that high and dwarf combo would not be something
immediately understood by most operators.

Generally the rule systems expect that you have a mast with one or
more heads to display the appearance of the aspects. Never on two
different physical devices. But maybe somebody can provide a prototype
example.

-Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team
www.jmri.org
www.fingerlakeslivesteamers.org
www.cnymod.com

Maybe this is the way things are, but it's irritating if so

I'm running Steve Todds JMRI image on a RasPi and I've noticed that when you move open windows around, they are "in front" of the task bar and not behind it

And not just JMRI windows, but that's the primary use

Is there a setting i'm missing somewhere that allows windows to slide "behind" the taskbar??

Phil G

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One question I forgot to add. Maybe this is obvious but for 'Add/Edit Signal Mast' do I use IHxx signal heads or NH$xx signal heads. I assume NH$xx is just to drive the light-it.

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Thanks to all who clarified my signaling question. Now I understand where I was going wrong. Currently I am using light-it with dwarf signals for turnouts. To move on to full block signaling I want to use masts not as 'DCC Signal Mast Decoder' but as ‘Signal Head Controlled Mast’, specifying each decoder separately, if I understand correctly. As the former I wasn’t sure how to incorporate the turnout position into the signals.?