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 task bar 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 users
  • 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
  • ITC VNC: Display the screen contents of the additional operating station (ITC)
  • perf2: Check processor load and process load
  • Portscan: Test active connections
  • Portscan

  • Portscan OEM: Available only to authorized specialists
  • Terminal: Enter and execute console commands
  • TNCdiag: Evaluates status and diagnostic information of HEIDENHAIN components with a focus on the drives and presents it graphically
  • TNCdiag

  • TNCscope: Available only to authorized specialists

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
  • Document Viewer: Display and print files (e.g., PDF files)
  • Geeqie: Open, manage, and print graphics
  • Gnumeric: Open, edit, and print tables
  • Hostkey: Show a unique ASCII image to identify the control
  • 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
  • Mozilla Firefox: Start the browser
  • 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

  • Real VNC Viewer: Connect to a remote device via a VNC server
  • Available only to network specialists

  • Remote Desktop Manager
  • The Remote Desktop Manager window (#133 / #3-01-1)

  • Ristretto Image Viewer: Open graphics
  • Secure Remote Access
  • Secure Remote Access

  • Combine fixtures
  • Combining fixtures in the New Fixture window

  • Touchscreen Cleaning
  • Web Browser: Start the browser
  • Xarchiver: Extract or compress directories

Search

Full-text search of 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.