HEROS menu

Application

In the HEROS menu the control shows information about the operating system. You can change settings or use HEROS functions.

By default you open the HEROS menu through the taskbar at the bottom edge of the screen

Description of function

You open the HEROS menu with the green DIADUR icon in the taskbar or with the DIADUR key.

Taskbar

Standard view of the HEROS menu

The HEROS menu contains the following functions:

Area

Function

Header

  • User name
  • The Active user window

  • User-specific settings
  • Lock display
  • Only if user administration is active

  • Switch user
  • Only if user administration is active

  • Restart
  • Shut down
  • Log out
  • Only if user administration is active

  • User Administration

Navigation

  • Favorites
  • Recently used

Diagnostic

  • GSmartControl: Available only to authorized specialists
  • HeLogging: Define settings for internal diagnostic files
  • HeMenu: Available only to authorized specialists
  • perf2: Check processor load and process load
  • Portscan: Test active connections
  • Portscan

  • Portscan OEM: Available only to authorized specialists
  • RemoteService: Start and stop remote maintenance
  • Secure Remote Access

  • Terminal: Enter and execute console commands
  • TNCdiag: Evaluates status and diagnostic information of HEIDENHAIN components (particularly motors) and presents it graphically
  • TNCdiag

  • TNCscope
  • Software for data recording

Settings

Info

  • About HeROS: Open information about the operating system of the control
  • About Xfce: Open information on the Window manager

Tools

  • Switch-off: Shut-down or restart
  • Screenshot: Create screenshots
  • File Manager: Available only to authorized specialists
  • Diffuse Merge Tool: Compare and merge text files
  •  
    Tip

    To compare NC programs, the control offers the program comparison function.

    Program comparison

  • Document Viewer: Display and print files (e.g., PDF files)
  • Geeqie: Open, manage, and print graphics
  • Gnumeric: Open, edit, and print tables
  • IDS Camera Manager: Manage cameras connected to the control
  • keypad horizontal: Open virtual keyboard
  • keypad vertical: Open virtual keyboard
  • Leafpad: Open and edit text files
  • NC Control: Start or stop the NC software independently of the operating system
  • NC/PLC Backup
  • Backup and restore

  • NC/PLC Restore
  • Backup and restore

  • QupZilla: Alternative web browser for touch operation
  • Real VNC Viewer: Define the settings for external software accessing the control (e.g., for maintenance purposes)
  • Remote Desktop Manager
  • The Remote Desktop Manager window (#133 / #3-01-1)

  • Ristretto: Open graphics files
  • Secure Remote Access
  • Secure Remote Access

  • Combine fixtures
  • Combining fixtures in the New Fixture window

  • TNCguide: Open help files in CHM format
  • TouchKeyboard: Open keyboard for touch operation
  • Web Browser: Start the web browser
  • Xarchiver: Extract or compress directories

Searching

Full-text search for individual functions

Taskbar

CAD Viewer opened in the third desktop with taskbar shown and active HEROS menu

The taskbar consists of the following areas:

1

Workspaces

2

3

Opened applications, e.g.:

  • Control interface
  • CAD Viewer
  • Window of HEROS functions

You can move the opened applications into any other workspaces.

4

Widgets

Window Manager

With the Window Manager, you manage functions of the HEROS operating system as well as windows opened in the third desktop, such as CAD Viewer.

The control features the Xfce window manager. Xfce is a standard application for UNIX-based operating systems, and is used to manage graphical user interfaces. The following functions are possible with the window manager:

  • Display a taskbar for switching between various applications (user interfaces)
  • Manage an additional desktop, on which special applications from your machine manufacturer can run
  • Control the focus between NC software applications and those of the machine manufacturer
  • You can change the size and position of pop-up windows. It is also possible to close, minimize and restore pop-up windows

If a window is opened in the third desktop, the control displays the Window Manager icon in the information bar. You can switch between the open applications by selecting the icon.

You can minimize the control's user interface by pulling down from the information bar. The TNC bar and the OEM bar remain visible.

Areas of the control's user interface

Notes

  • If a window is opened in the third desktop, the control displays an icon in the information bar.
  • Areas of the control's user interface

  • The machine manufacturer determines the scope of function and behavior of the window manager.
  • The control shows a star in the upper left of the screen if an application of the window manager or the window manager itself has caused an error. In this case, switch to the window manager and correct the problem. If required, refer to your machine manual.