$~*$&$ :==> THIS IS A STABLE, STANDARD PLATFORM FOR * * * * *
$~*$&$ APPLICATION PLAYING, GAMES, CLEAR THINKING, 
$~*$&$ WORK, AND OPEN SOURCE FIRST-HAND PROGRAMMING
$~*$&$ USING:==> G15 PMN, AND FOR OPEN ROBOTICS: G15 PMN FCM
$~*$&$ THE BEST 64BIT LINUX G15 PMN IS HERE! FOR NEON LINUX,
$~*$&$ A MOST WELL-DESIGNED USER-FRIENDLY WAYLAND LINUX
==========================> W E L C O M E * * * * * !
==========================> W E L C O M E * * * * * !
==========================> W E L C O M E * * * * * !
ARE YOU DEVELOPING APPS FOR ROBOTS WITH A LINUX PC
INTEGRATED IN THEM? THE NEON LINUX WITH THIS G15 PMN
PACKAGE CAN AUTOSTART YOUR G15 PMN ROBOAPPS SO THAT,
AFTER POWER-UP, ONLY A CLICK ON "ENTER" IS ENOUGH TO START
YOUR G15 PMN APP, OR A MENU OF LOTS OF YOUR G15 PMN ROBOAPPS
G15 PMN works are wholeheartedly honoring the human natural mind &
in that sense part of support of a noble, meaningful anti-AI stance
For all info and links about this: genifun.com/openrobotics
And more about robotics w/o AI: yoga4d.org/arguments_against_AI
as well physics super-model theory .pdf included in this package
Author: S.R.Weber alias Aristo Tacoma Real name: S.H.B.Reusch
This infotext is 015inneon.txt inside neong15ways.zip
**** STABLE, STANDARD PERFECT G15 PMN, ALL FLAVOURS INCL ROBOTS
**** FLAWLESS PERFORMANCE WITH 64BIT WAYLAND KDE NEON LINUX 
**** AND OBVIOUSLY WITH A LOT OF OTHER WAYLAND LINUXES AS WELL
**** GET neon.kde.org PC DESKTOP AND UNZIP THIS AND THAT'S ALL!
The KDE Neon GNU/Linux with its "Plasma" is acknowledged many 
places to be one of the most successful and is without question 
amongst the best-designed ones for typical Desktop PC usage 
and more, and the developers are dedicated to making the most 
of the elegant Wayland standard. Get it at https://neon.kde.org. 
In this, the G15 package for Neon you get, fitting w/Wayland:
   neong15pmn To run all G15 PMN standard apps incl games
     {In Linux 32b, similar is y6.zip and y6all.zip}
   neong15rworks This in addition runs G15 PMN FCM robots
     To use this, see setup instructions "CONFIGURING 
     ROBOAPPS TO INTERACT WITH ROBOHARDWARE" beneath,
     together with: genifun.com/openrobotics 
     {In MsWindows, a somewhat similar form is: g15robot;
     in Linux 32b, somewhat similar is g15control.zip}
   neong15rstart As neong15rworks, but with autostart of 
     your favourite G15 PMN app, which you put into it
   neong15rmenu As neong15rworks, but with autostart of 
     the h:1 menu
   neonramg15rworks As neong15rworks but huge ram 
     use enabled
     {In MsWindows, a somewhat similar form is: g15rbotx}
   neonramg15rstart As neong15rstart but huge ram 
     use enabled
   neonramg15rmenu As neong15rmenu but huge ram 
     use enabled; these huge ram flavours are more
     massive in this package than in any other released 
     so far {but still, as we like, 32-bit, of course}
They are installed by a simple unzipping and with a
few simple actions you get graphical startup icons
for such as Neon linux. Only library required is SDL2. 
For each flavour you also get a "..x" form for 
"game mouse" mode. And for every one of these you get,
in addition a same-named .sh script suitable for 
autostarting the PC.

The G15 PMN .g15 disks are exactly as in all standard
G15 PMN releases; this is a perfectly standard package.
This 015inneon.txt is as 015setup.txt but as it is
released some days later, and concerns Neon G15 PMN 
rather than Ubuntu G15 PMN, it not only has updated
comments pertaining to Neon, but also a few corrections
and some added helpful info.

Website locations where this .zip is listed include: 
genifun.com/openrobotics
norskesites.org/fic3 
norskesites.org/fic3/fic3inf3.htm
***********************************************************
Release date for neong15ways.zip: APRIL 5 2018. 
***********************************************************
IN CASE OF ANY SMALL NECESSARY UPDATES TO THIS 
TEXT IT WILL BE NOTED HERE WITH AN EXTRA DATE. 
[[[This text has been edited many times so there may 
be a couple of contradictions or spelling issues;
this text was made some days later than the
corresponding one in theg15ways.zip and has a
couple of corrections and is modified to fit
KDE neon perfectly; also the program content
of this package is updated to fit it.]]]

IN CASE OF QUESTIONS WITH YOUR KDE NEON LINUX:
Not just dedicated Neon sites like forum.kde.org
can provide clues, but also, quite often, you'll 
be able to use such as command lines indicated 
in unix.stackexchange.com, askubuntu.com, 
linuxquestions.org. If, like this author, you
automatically avoid anything that is, as we can
put it, "tainted with the AI-virus", and,
for that reason, you automatically avoid anything
that has any voice and/or natural language input 
program attached to it, and if you find that 
some of these linux sites have made such as voice
input then the suggestion is that at your browser
you get a way (eg by a plugin) to switch of 
Javascript and stick to using those sites that
still work with Javascript turned off. At least,
with Javascript off, an imposing site won't be
able to impose as much of its nonsense, then. ;-)

BIG UPDATES TO THE INSTALLATION PROCEDURE AND/OR
CONTENT FILES WILL BE RELEASED IN A SEPARATE .zip
PACKAGE LISTED ALONGSIDE neong15ways.zip ON THE 
WEBSITES. Questions about install or about G15 PMN
programming to Stein Reusch Weber srw at avenuege
dot com. The G15 PMN runnable minimalist core is 
freeware but closed source; all else about G15 PMN
is open source; all can be used freely in all
respectable contexts given acknowledgements; G15 PMN
is created by SRW {alias Stein Henning Braten Reusch,
artist names include Aristo Tacoma, ATWLAH} as a 
prolongation of Firth {by same} from 2006 and with G15 
cpu design completed in 2012 and G15 PMN platform 
totally finalized in 2015 after which all focus is 
on app development including FCM as a coherent approach 
to robotic programming wholy without the false 
pretension of the over-hyped thing called "AI".
If in doubt whether the anti-AI stance makes good
sense, it is of value to know that this was the
established stance due to intense groundwork in
formal logic and modern physics, summarized aptly
by many works including also many parts of the
famous book by Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose,
"The Emperor's New Mind", in the 1980s. It is the
bosses of giga-sized tech companies that have used
their influence on the media and, via sponsoring,
the research institutions, that have given the 
concept of "Artificial Intelligence" a false sugar
boost. Hard-core science doesn't back up the position
that natural creative intelligence can be reduced to
any form of human artefact. This doesn't prevent
algorithms from mimicking features of how a natural
mentality works. And so, FCM, First-hand Computerised
Mentality, takes as starting-point a more modest and
more real view of the question of how machines are
limited and context-bound and how intuitive, creative
intelligence involves something beyond the machine.


                      =*=

WELCOME TO NEONG15WAYS! G15 PMN RUNNING ON TOP OF
NEON KDE GNU/LINUX 64BIT DESKTOP WITH WAYLAND

The G15 PMN approach fits marvellously well with
those philosophically inclined people who have a
very healthy scepticism against any claim made
in the name of "AI" and who don't want to touch
products associated with the over-hype around AI
nor want products with voice input to programs.
See also yoga6d.org/the_noble_anti_AI_approach.htm
and links from norskesites.org/fic3/fic3inf3.htm

Note that Neon Wayland with its KDE Plasma and 
all offers, in its present editions, two 
alternative logins--the old one, and the Wayland
login. You'd better at once figure out what
login options there are, if you haven't already
done so--and be aware that Wayland login is the
preferred one as far as these works go.
  There are some issues that still have to be 
sorted out in just how Wayland is supposed to
be working in these linuxes and some programs
{including at the moment of writing the otherwise 
excellent Konqueror browser} aren't updated to
fit with Wayland yet. So for latecomers in
converting to Wayland, Neon offers an alternative 
login also.
  G15 PMN works flawlessly with Neon wayland so
select that option--Wayland--on the login screen,
unless it is the standard option and doesn't need
to be named as such. {See below for a way to check
whether Wayland is running, using command 'env'.}

G15 PMN WORKS WONDERFULLY WELL IN NEON KDE GNU/LINUX
*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$*$
Do make practical notes of these features, though:

* A feature--not something that is in need of
correction--if you click on the mouse at once
without the slightest movement of it, once G15 PMN
has started in fullscreen, G15 PMN will go in the
background and allow access to Neon Linux menues.
It is however normal that the mouse is moved
before it is clicked! In order for it to point
to something inside G15 PMN. So we approve of this
feature and do not try to change it.

* A slight issue with Neon Wayland running G15 PMN
is the same issue we have seen with Neon Wayland
running several other programs: when you start it 
all on a slow PC and IN THAT FRACTION of a second 
it takes to initialize the process you also do 
mouse movements the PC can suspend the mouse and 
demand 'ESC' button to be pressed in 3 seconds 
in order to release it from suspensions. This
is something to do with Wayland and GNU/Linux
integration, a minor little thing that no doubt
will be straightened out as the versions evolve;
we've seen it arise on 'native' Neon programs as
well.
  And G15 PMN is fantastically stable, fast 
and as flawless as can be in Neon with
Wayland, even on PCs that aren't very fast.

* About use of mouse in both frame and fullscreen.
In contrast to our implementation of standard
G15 PMN for Ubuntu w/Wayland login option,
mouse can here also be used in frame. In this
regard, Wayland is better implemented in how
KDE NEON have done it. 
  However we still assert that G15 PMN is naturally 
and wholly something dedicated to fullscreen--in
the sense of having nothing else on the screen
at the same time, just its 1024x768 pixel area
in the center of the monitor {shown when you use
a G15 PMN program such as Gem or B9edit that uses
the whole G15 PMN standard screen} and black around 
it, in case of a larger monitor. The reasons should 
be rather obvious but the chief point is that G15 PMN 
is not only a programming language but in a sense 
an operating system around its own concept CPU 
whose esthetics is tied up to entirely different 
principles. Having said as much, the only point 
you should be aware of if toggling between frame 
and fullscreen mode while using a very mouse-
intensive program like the Curveart "ART" command
is that the mouse pointer is likely to jump at
each toggle. ART is a program where drawing 
happens without mouse-clicking required and so
in such a case, you should pay attention to 
clearing up any extra 'dot' that may arise as
a result of toggling.

* And, as said several places: the screencard must 
be compatible enough with Wayland that it places
the 1024x768 area, without any stretching, in
the perfect center of any monitor larger than
this in pixel size. If it is not centered, use a
different G15 PMN package, such as with SDL 1.2
via 32-bit setups (that also works for 64-bit
linuxes of many kinds) in y6.zip, or use MsWindows.
For earlier PCs, there are several alternative 
packages with standard G15 PMN.


SO,
THIS IS:

A FULLY STANDARD YOGA6DORG G15 PMN PLATFORM: 
G15 PMN for desktop applications, for G15 PMN games, 
for educational and professional G15 PMN robotic apps, 
and larger technical emulators and more, for a 
typical 64-bit GNU/Linux with a Wayland platform 

A much fuller set of introduction texts to G15 PMN
is found in the original 32-bit Linux package y6.zip.
But with this text, 015inneon.txt, and with the
information at the websites, you get a pretty good
intro--and much more updated.

So, this is the setup text within neong15ways.zip as 
eg at norskesites.org/neong15ways.zip
and at genifun.com/neong15ways.zip
It is a stable package. For tiny but necessary
changes, they will be included here with a 
clear date in the lines connected to the date
given above for the release of NEONG15WAYS.
===================================================


When you install the User Edition, 64-bit, of Neon Linux
from neon.kde.org/download, you get Wayland also installed.

To install a Linux to a PC laptop can be done via a pendisk.
Normally, check with suitable websites as to whether a PC is
standard enough to handle Linux first. Then you can also 
look into installation instructions e.g. at Ubuntu.com as 
for how to put the neon-amd64-whatever-it-is-named.iso to 
this pendisk, whether you start with MsWindows or another 
Linux, because that part of the installation is very similar.
Note however that, as for screencard standards, Wayland is 
generally much more implemented for PCs that aren't of the 
earliest, classical type but more modern. (There are other
ways of running G15 PMN if you have a classical PC.)

At the Neon login screen then Wayland is either the
standard or you look closely where you can open a menu 
to select it rather than previous standards. At the 
present date of this .txt setup info, there's a group 
of programs that haven't been fully updated to comply 
with Wayland yet, and so it may take some time before 
it becomes the standard login option. Those who decide,
and I believe it is a great thing to do, to use
Wayland whenever possible, should--at this stage--
also learn what issues there is with what programs
and what series of actions that may cause a 'freeze'
of the PC so it must shutdown. It is then good to
know that G15 PMN, when handled correctly, has been
checked to work excellently and without a flaw for
hours on end in each session. 

Remember that for full normal use of a desktop PC with
Neon KDE Linux, then, at the time when this .txt setup
text is written, to start some programs that haven't 
been fully updated yet to fit with Wayland requires that 
you go restart the PC and select the other type of login
{we advice this rather than 'logout' option, for this
refreshes the RAM of the PC in a more deep way}. 
But the Neon platform is generally doing what
it should do with enormous ease and where the designers
through and through, both as for its text boxes and for
its placement of graphics and for the selection of 
buttons and so on, have shown that they are artists and
that they have melted technical capacity with a sense of
soul.

The following .txt setup text is for the large part 
identical to the package for Wayland with Ubuntu, but
the installation parts of it is shorter, for Neon is 
more flexible in use than Ubuntu. For those coming 
from Ubuntu or who read eg OpenRobotics core 
instructions which were first oriented towards Ubuntu 
please note:

  To open a Terminal just click on the application
  icon, or click on the windows/"super" button on
  the keyboard, and type the initial letters of 
  the word "Konsole". Then the icon appears. You can
  then right-click on the icon and place it on the
  Desktop, or click on it to start the terminal.

  To view an image from command line, "gwenview" is a
  command in Neon Wayland where "eog" is more usual in
  Ubuntu Wayland.
  
  Be sure, by the way, that gwenview is installed:
  the PC auto-startup alternatives for G15 PMN uses
  a script which shows a greeting using just this
  program. If it isn't installed, on the command line,
  type    sudo apt install gwenview
  and it should come along easily enough. It is a
  wayland-oriented image viewer and this package of
  G15 PMN is wayland oriented.
  
  To edit also tiny texts on the commandline, "geany" is
  a more obvious choice in Neon Wayland than some other
  small text editors {though a somewhat larger editor
  than, say, gedit}. Installation of Geany is easy,
  for instance, at the command line:  
    sudo apt install geany
  
NOTE THAT IF YOU USE AN EARLY LINUX/WAYLAND 
COMBINATION YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW TO REBOOT:
--for, as already indicated--
some mouse initialisation procedures and other
such things can, in such early approaches 
where Wayland hasn't been fully integrated
yet into the platform, cause a necessity of
holding the power button of the PC in for 
some seconds, then restarting. For a well-
programmed package like Neon, this doesn't
arise even in its early combination with
Wayland, except on spots that you can learn
to know about and avoid, so that you get
a perfectly stable performance of the
computer each time. It's good also to know
that G15 PMN has been designed with a 
minimum of cluttering as to required 
indexing of its file system. So, quite
often, though this depends on which app
it's running, the G15 PMN disk-files are
in perfect order also after abrupt restarts
of the PC.


THE SUPER-SURE WAY TO ESTABLISH WHETHER WAYLAND
IS THAT WHICH A LINUX PC IS RUNNING NOW:

First, is the Linux a Wayland linux?
In a Konsole, in the normal user mode, type
 
  env | grep -i wayland

and if some text comes up then, Wayland Linux does seem
to be what is running. Note again that this command only
makes full sense if you type it inside the Local user mode,
which is the standard mode that the program Konsole
starts when you start it from some typical menu, e.g. by
searching for Applications. {In other words, if you have
just typed   sudo -i   or something like  su -   to get
into administrator mode, type   exit    before you
do the check on the wayland via env.}

Use other .zips at our webpages in case you have 
X.org type of Linux, see installation instructions
for this in footnote #1 at genifun.com/openrobotics

NOTE: THE SCREENCARD YOU HAVE MUST PERFECTLY
CENTER THE WAYLAND FULLSCREEN MODE G15 PMN
FOR THIS TO WORK. If there is some kind of
modified Wayland, it may not work and then you
should get SDL1.2 to work with y6.zip and, if
you like, g15control.zip added to it to give
run roboapps like here. But be sure: when
you have a standard Wayland and a standard
screencard for a standard 64-bit Linux, this 
works wonderfully well! And this is the approach
we strongly advice. Note that there are subtle
differences in how Wayland can be implemented to
the alternative of Xorg as a display environment
and that theg15ways.zip is working with some
other linuxes.





===================================================
If there are big changes required to get it to run
on the most modern Linuxes in the future, there will
be a separate .zip package listed beside this .zip
package on all the relevant webpages. While we
expect that 32-bit Linux {and Firth} and also the 
MsWindows flavours of G15 PMN continue to be used,
a long-term perspective seems to be that higher-than-
32-bit Linuxes in tune with standards can become
the most common way for all sorts of professional
programming and so also for G15 PMN {in addition to
the hardware made for G15 PMN in particular}. (The
platforms chiefly made to serve the data acquisition
purposes of an advertising/phone oriented computer
company do not seem to be nearly as interesting in
the long term as the neutral Personal Computer
open source Linux platforms.)

This is text 015inneon.txt inside neong15ways.zip.

For intro to G15 PMN check out such as
  genifun.com/openrobotics
  norskesites.org/fic3
  norskesites.org/fic3/fic3inf3.htm
and other links also from yoga6d.org/look.htm

Let's be clear G15 PMN is for that delicious
concept called a Personal Computer. And that has
a comfortable large keyboard with F1 .. F12 keys
and something not too far removed from US English
standard setup, it has a mouse pointer device, and 
a screen capable of showing 1024 x 768 beautiful
monochrome green graphics chiefly in fullscreen. 

So, next is all info necessary to get standard 
G15 PMN in a lot of flavours suitable also for 
robots to work flawlessly and effortlessly--at 
least if you are okay with typing in a couple 
of linux commands. In case of there being major 
changes to the Neon kde gnu/linux with its ground 
we will either provide an added note right here, 
inside this text, about how to handle those, or 
we will provide a separate .zip beside the 
location of neong15ways.zip as it is 
found on norskesites.org/fic3, 
genifun.com/openrobotics, norskesites.org/fic3inf3.htm 
and such pages; these also have the y6.zip and the
other .zips such as for Microsoft Windows.


In a hurry to get G15 PMN to run in your Linux?
{The rest of the intro text is after this quick setup list}
===========================================================
Step 1: unzip neong15ways.zip directly in your 
local user area, where you have read-write 
access and access to run graphics. This creates 
the folder ~/neong15ways

Step 2. In Neon you usually have the program
GWENVIEW--an image viewer for Wayland. But
check it just in case. Click on applications,
then type in that word, if nothing arises,
type in Software Center or Discover Software
Center and get it installed.

Step 3: to access pixels of monitor and to
access mouse and keyboard the G15 PMN in
Linux 64bit w/wayland uses the free, open,
much-used SDL2 library. So open Konsole
and check whether you have it already:
  sudo apt install libsdl2-2.0 
and if need be confirm installation by 'Y'.
You can type libsdl2-dev instead for somewhat
larger library set. {{{If at some point in the
future neither of these two work even after 
you have checked that you have internet connection 
and all software updates installed, and you 
have a standard enough Linux, then it may 
mean that the by finalized SDL2 library 
somehow has got out of the distribution flow.
This means that you should consult our website
for an update of the installation; or
search on the net for what to do when
SDL2 isn't available. It may mean that it
is required that one moves up to a higher
main version number of SDL and it may also 
mean that an updated form of the neong15ways.zip
is required at that stage. Let us however
be very clear: The SDL 1.2.n was a standard
for many years; SDL 2.0.n is likely to be
a standard for probably even more years.}}}

{To open a Terminal you can search it up
on the application launcher by the name
Konsole.}

Step 4: Ready! In that same Konsole, Go 
into that neong15ways folder and run it! 
Eg:
  cd ~/neong15ways
  ./neong15pmn

Typically, when you run things from the 
command line, a bit of messages arise
connected to this or that theme setup or
such,--and that type of messages the
well-versed command line operator is good
at ignoring ;)

Wanna try a game? App# 1010101 Texasstars
is included! Type, inside G15 PMN:
  mnt 
  1
  1010101
with a lineshift after "mnt" and after
"1010101". Then click CTR-W and click on
the arrow inside the F/1 startup place,
and good luck.

You might also want to try the version
that has a socalled "game mouse mode",
like this:
  ./neong15pmnx
The difference is subtle but there's a
slightly more "gliding" approach to how
the mouse is read in these "..x" flavours
of G15 PMN, which typically suits games
better. This more "gliding" approach is
most noticable if timing is hugely 
significant for the PC, and more so when
the PC isn't the fastest possible for the
program that is performed. For such as
drawing programs, it's probably normally
better to skip the "..x" flavour and go for
the normal flavours, in order to get a more
intensive {even if slightly more time-
consuming} reading of the mouse, but in most
cases, the difference is hardly noticable.

Step 4. Having checked that it works,
exit whatever G15 PMN program you're running, 
then press CTR-Q and type REB to exit the
G15 PMN operating platform. The next steps 
could be ADDING CLICKABLE ICONS {a few 
paragraphs ahead} and then possibly also 
AUTOSTART AT BOOTUP. In this package,
neong15ways.zip, is the game you perhaps
just tried, and also the Third Foundation
app, app# 3,333,333, including its summary
of physics both for B9edit and as .pdf
printout.

{For more how to start up programs once 
inside, and how to quit again, and how to 
use the keyboard and the mouse, see the 
footnotes of this text.}




The G15 PMN approach to computing is
DIFFERENT than all other approaches to
computing we've seen--in the world. And
it works wonderfully well, it is a coherent
world of programming, organising data etc.
It is its own operating approach, can be
run straight on electronics tailormade
to run it. The startup screen blinks and
switches for an instant between frame and
fullscreen mode during every startup also
to TELL the interactor that this is a
world on its own--besides being a most
excellent way to clear the display
structures and blaze a trail for the
G15 PMN performances to come.

For some people, to know about the
  cd neong15ways
  ./neong15pmn 
is all they want: they like starting things
by text, and for now, they only want the
standard G15 PMN. But if you want robotic
G15 PMN apps to run, and/or graphical ways
of starting it, autostarting etc, read on!

=========================================
 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
=========================================

However, let's show how to start it by means
of a graphical icon here and there as well,
and then also let's talk about the other
main flavours as included here.

[[[By the way:
If the content .zip file has been moved about 
and somehow the permissions for the program to
run as program aren't there, just type
  cd ~/neong15ways
  chmod 755 neong15pmn.sh
  chmod 755 neong15pmn
and try again. It should work, if you have a
standard enough Linux and a standard enough
screencard, in which the resulting fullscreen
is centered on the screen. In case you had
to do a chmod 755 with the pair of neong15pmn's
be sure you do it with the other flavours you 
are going to use.]]]

ADDING CLICKABLE ICONS FOR G15 PMN
==========================================
[[[The following stuff--the lazy luxurious
approach of getting the program listed on the
favourites list with an icon--works fine in
all present linuxes of the type we've tried
this on. For much later versions of Linux, 
be prepared to search it up here and there 
how to do such a thing, in case it doesn't 
work.]]]

This can vary a lot from Linux to Linux, and 
standards even in one Linux can change. 
However, this is roughly the approach that
should work:

***GET IT ON THE DESKTOP AS AN ICON:

Right-click with the mouse on the main desktop
area and select Create and Create link to new
application and once inside, click on the empty
icon square and select browse and point out the
file 015icon.png inside the folder neong15ways.
To the right of it is the name which appears on
the desktop, fix that.
  Having done as much, find the place where it
speaks of 'command' and click on Browse in
connection to it and navigate to the folder.
There select the suitable startup, for instance
neong15pmn. {The .sh files are used for auto-
start of the PC right after boot.} 
  Right underneath 'command' there is a field
called 'work path'. Select the same folder
there.
  Click OK and so on, and when you see the
icon on the Desktop, right-click on it in and
select "Rename" in case you didn't select a
name for it. If you like, edit also other
fields there. 
  Then reboot before you try a new icon just to
be sure the platform is fully updated about the
Desktop change.



  
[[[As said: In case there is a chmod 755 to be done 
on the neong15pmn above you should also do it on the
for every flavour of G15 PMN here included.]]]




HOW TO GET G15 PMN TO AUTOSTART ON BOOTUP,
EG WITH G15 PMN'S "NEONG15RSTART" FOR ROBOT CONTROL
====================================================

General note, obvious things, but it is good to
have them said: Only autostart something that you
are entirely sure that you absolutely want the
PC to start with each time. And only change 
autostart settings when you have a backup of all
important files on that PC. So setting autostart
typically is best done only with a platform that
you have used some time, and with applications
that you know rather well. A laptop PC with Neon
that is set up to work as an integral part of
eg an Avenuege robot uses the "neong15rstart.sh"
as startup command. However the "..rstart" option
requires that you have put the app you want to 
have autostarted to what in G15 PMN terminology
is "the F disk" {which is represented as the 
file "fdisk.g15" inside the folder}. So before
you know your way around in G15 PMN, autostart
plain G15 PMN such as "neong15pmn.sh" rather than
a fancy option like the rstart.
  {To experiment with setting up one of the
..rstart flavours, see footnote 10 in this text.}

Generally, with this package made for KDE neon
Linux with Wayland, you can set up any app, such
as a roboapp, to autostart with the PC so that
a single lineshift, after login to the Linux
desktop, it all it takes to enter the world 
of G15 PMN and whatever you like of autostarting
G15 PMN apps.



***GET IT TO AUTOSTART:

In KDE neon GNU/Linux this is very simple, once 
you know how. You just open the main menu {eg by
a click on the windows/"super"-button on the 
keyboard}, type "autostart" and click on Autostart
and then click on "Add program". Here you type in
Konsole and click on the Konsole icon and click on
OK. Next you restart to check that you have got the
Konsole terminal to autostart. If you've done it
right, it starts alright. 
  Then, open up the same Autostart frame again,
and click on the line you just added there, where
it says "Konsole", and click on "Properties" button
on the frame. Then, in the tab called Application,
you find the field called Command and inside that 
field change what it says to this--assuming now
that you wish to autostart G15 PMN "vanilla" 
flavour and, furthermore, assuming your user name 
happens to be "angelica"! Here we go:

  sh -c /home/angelica/neong15ways/neong15pmn.sh
  
If you like, you can also change the Name field 
field and the Description field to something you
feel is correct enough. Be sure to include the
".sh" at the end in order to autostart. The .sh
scripts ensure that the startup has in it a little
startup info and a few seconds delay so that the 
PC gets a chance to get fully into its platform
before starting the G15 PMN. The .sh also ensures
that a single click on the keyboard's ENTER key
is necessary to enter the platform. {{{If
you like, you can also have an extra Konsole
frame hovering in the background while running
the program. To achieve this, just prefix the
whole line above, including the whole sh -c 
phrase, with konsole -e and a blank.}}}
  
Click on OK and that's all. Try it: do a full 
reboot of the PC. You will see a startup which
suggests that you should press on the lineshift
button in order to start G15 PMN in fullscreen. 
This is all in order to get the platform to fully
initialize screen, keyboard, mouse and more 
before it rushes onto G15 PMN. 

{{{For different but related versions: If it doesn't
work the version of linux you have may be different
and in case, try to type in the line manually in
the Terminal. If it starts flawlessly there, you
should get it right somehow. If it doesn't it 
should say something that is a hint of why it
doesn't start it. You may, for instance, have to 
change a word in the tiny .sh script with
an editor or maybe change the word "sh".
Once you get the line to work, do analogous work
with the autostart settings and you'll get it
right, I'm pretty sure--esp if you are ready to
look into the autostart frame for additional
settings and get them right, too. Try to search
for clues at such as forum.kde.org and at other
sites for Linux technical questions in case you 
need ideas to get it to work.}}}

If you look inside the .sh scripts you'll see that
they start eg "./neong15pmn auto". The word "auto"
refers to the idea of autostarting the PC with this
program, but it really doesn't matter what is 
written on the line. The program simply detects that
there is something more on the line, and if it is,
it does a startup more along the lines we'd expect
it to if it is an autostart program for the PC.



As said above:
Once G15 PMN is started,--in one way or in
another way--then it, too, can autostart stuff.

The neong15rstart flavour, autostarts a G15
PMN program at card F1. YOU MUST PUT THIS STARTUP
PROGRAM THERE YOURSELF. Or, you get a package, 
such as a completed roboapp, in which such an
card F1 setup has been prepared for you. Such an
app you put into the neong15ways folder {or
whatever you call it; just be sure that if you
rename it, you use an editor like geany and
change the paths in each of the .sh files to
the new folder name, consistently; most active
G15 PMN folks, using such as a Neon platform,
have many folders dedicated to G15 PMN.}

The neong15rmenu flavour autostarts the G15 PMN 
menu at card H1. This menu is normally entirely
empty before you have put something there yourself,
or mounted an app by the MNT option in the ordinary
startup, such as neong15pmnh or neong15rworks.

So, these you set up yourself, eg by copying from a 
G15 PMN roboapp or another app. Just be sure--this 
is obvious, but it doesn't harm to point it out--that 
you have tested the program through and through before 
you make the machine autostart with it. Only experiment 
with autostarts after you have backuped all important 
files on the PC to somewhere outside of it. Having said 
as much, it must be said that a good GNU/Linux like 
Neon works excellently with autostarts, and many 
professional appliances that do have much of a PC 
inside them somehow do use such a combination.



AS YOU PERHAPS ALREADY KNOW..
This starts in FULLSCREEN mode for 1024x768 {must
be centered if the monitor is bigger, if not, the
screencard or the Linux form isn't standard enough} 
and when you press DELETE button you can work with 
other Linux programs; press DELETE again to go back 
to work  with G15 PMN in Fullscreen. 
  Press ALT-DELETE to create xo1.bmp, xo2.bmp and up
as screen images {with width and height other than
that which is expected as as Gem image, though} that 
can also be treated in associated freeware such as 
./xoprint and ./xoprinti, and then converted eg to 
an extremely compact but equally precise .gif image.
  So, if you want a screen image you've made with
ALT-DEL, which has perhaps bright green text on 
black background, to be inverted and turned into 
black on white, do:
  ./xoprinti xo1.bmp new1.bmp
  convert new1.bmp new1.gif
And to view it in Linux, "eog" or "ristretto"
or the like can often do:
  eog new1.gif


FLAVOURS OF G15 PMN AS INCLUDED IN THIS PACKAGE:
  neong15pmn the standard G15 PMN, where you type
CAR to start up the main menu, CTR-W to activate
mouse, and click with mouse on the arrow-up to
start programs; quit by CTR-Q and type REB.
  neong15rworks the same but option to activate
Linux programs that do such as read and write
to robot hardware, cfr genifun.com/openrobotics 
  neong15rstart same as neong15rworks but 
autostarts program at f:1 without any initial 
keyboard or mouse input required, except the
one click with the mouse inside the tiny message
box that arises at startup
  neong15rmenu same as neong15rworks but 
auto-opens menu at h:1 with the CTR-W mouse 
option already activated--so that the interactor 
uses mouse to start up any program at the menu, 
which very easily can be tailormade to fit a 
certain setup

In addition, you get a ram-boosted version of
these, for the occasion when that's absolutely 
necessary (normally it isn't). These have the
same names but the prefix "ram..". And, as
already said, you also have a "game mode" 
type of mouse handling if you add the suffix
"..x" to the above. The mouse is, in the X
flavours, handled in a more "gliding" way
that can make a subtle but positive difference
for some games with much mouse-use.

For each of the startup flavours, a same-named
script with .sh as suffix is included, which is 
suitable for autostart of the PC {see above}.


UNFREEZE YOURSELF: GOOD TO KNOW FOR PROGRAMMING
DEVELOPMENT AND HANDLING OF UNRULY APPS
In case there is a freezing of screen due to
an untested program or something like that:
first, I hope you saved what you were working
on before that took place--G15 PMN in itself
is very stable indeed. During intense phases
of development, it is often a good idea to
start via the text approach, ie, via a command
such as ./neong15pmn in the Konsole. Then, 
click the "super"-key (with the windows-icon 
on it) on the keyboard and see if you can get
to the Konsole.
  In that Terminal, try CTR-Z or CTR-C or some 
such standard Unix stop command, or a right-click
on the activity line over it, or similar over
the G15 PMN frame. Then, if a frame
of G15 PMN remains, click the close-window
icon as part of that frame, and confirm any
question of 'Force quit', if it arises.
  Or, close the Terminal and that should 
also stop any process which it has started.
  In the hopefully unusual case that this is 
outside of what the PC can do, there's usually 
another pathway in linux--except trying the 
power off button {which can be held down for 
many seconds if everything else has been tried 
first}--and that's to click CTR-ALT-F4 or 
CTR-ALT-F5 or CTR-ALT-F6 and, if it switches 
to another linux login screen by this, log
in with your normal user name and password,
and type
  shutdown -h now
and it will power off fairly cleanly. By the
way, if you try out these ctr-alt combinations
so as to learn about your linux, you'll usually
find that CTR-ALT-F2 returns the PC to the normal
state.


===========================================



Not that much in a hurry? Great. So let's
begin at the beginning and state what this
is all about:

Intro to all this:
====================================

                             This is 
           ENTIRELY STANDARD G15 PMN
WORKING WITH THE EMERGED GRAPHICAL
STANDARD FOR 64-BIT LINUX DESKTOPS
AND WITH NEW AUTOSTART FORMS FOR 
ROBOTS AND TAILOR-MADE SETUPS
You also get, with this single .zip, 
both the standard application form of 
G15 PMN and those forms that are 
suitable to command robot hardware 
through Linux command line, as well 
as an extra-RAM-boosted form of G15 
PMN for very particular applications 
requiring this.

All these G15 PMN startup alternatives
go straight to work, without the typical
lineshift at the beginning that is 
standard in y6.zip. They also all assume
that the screen capacity is no less
than 1024 x 768 and so no numbers have
got to be put into anything to start
it.

NOTE: ANY COMMON, TYPICAL LAPTOP OR
PC WITH GRAPHICS CARD SHOWS SDL2
FULLSCREEN MODES WITH 1024x768 
PERFECTLY CENTERED ON THE SCREEN.
IF IT IS NOT CENTERED THIS PRODUCT
CANNOT BE USED. {Until you get an
upgraded graphical card or PC, you
may want to use earlier Linux form
from us, or a Microsoft Windows with 
some of the other G15 PMN packages, 
perhaps a 32-bit Linux or a 64-bit Linux 
with 32-bit enabled the way it is
described in connection to some of
the G15 PMN packages.}




ALT-DEL does produce screen copies
just as with the 32-bit y6all and
as with the MsWindows G15ROBOT version. 
They also handle the switching by DEL 
button between Fullscreen mode and 
surrounding Linux programs. Mouse 
movement is only used in G15 PMN 
in Linux 64-bit w/Wayland when it is 
in fullscreen mode {but, to be very
precise, clicks come through to the 
program even in that mode}.




So, all this should work flawlessly in Linux 
64-bit where the graphical environment named 
'wayland' rather replaces 'xorg', and where 
the background graphical library must be
sdl2 rather than sdl1.2; and where--and
please note this--the local user mode should
be used when starting the graphics, where
before the administrator (root) mode could
be used to start also graphics. This is 
fitting with the 'wayland' approach, which
is, by now--as we can say--the name of the 
emerged graphical background standard for 
GNU/Linux 64-bit Desktops. If it is not
Wayland, then even if it has SDL2, it is
far from sure that anything of this can
start meaningfully.

If you just want to get it running get
up terminal, also called Konsole, and
type:
  sudo apt install libsdl2-2.0
and type in your password and confirm
installation with the letter 'Y'
{or, the very full form that I prefer,
  sudo apt install libsdl2-dev
which has the sdl development files.}

All in place? Then you can start any of
the forms of G15 PMN; they all work on
the same set of G15 PMN disks in the
folder you starting it in. The classical
form of G15 PMN is started e.g. by
  cd ~/neong15ways
  ./neong15pmn
ie, inside the folder you created by 
unzipping noeng15ways.zip.  
  The most meaningful place to unzip 
this, so that you easily can start 
G15 PMN as a local user, is the
/home/yourusername/ place, since you
have write-permission automatically to
all folders here. The neong15pmn 
should start perfectly. 
{The slanted lines in the beginning
you will see when the graphics is up
are there on purpose, as a fast 
uplifting greeting.}

In case the unzipped files have somehow
been moved around and their permissions
are gone type
  chmod 755 neong15pmn
  chmod 755 neong15pmn.sh
to get Linux to accept it as performable
program (similar with the other programs in
the folder). The script neong15pmn.sh
refers to the program file neong15pmn, and
both must be 'executable'. 

These forms of G15 PMN all work with 64-bit 
Neon Linux with Wayland. To use any of the robot
oriented versions, see paragraph below in this
text as to how to give your username extra
rights as to access of robot servos in Linux
{something necessary for G15 PMN roboapps 
when we run graphical applications in local 
user mode in Linux, see beneath for how to 
it}.
  *neong15pmn Graphical, in fullscreen (for 64-bit 
Linux SDL2), is exactly as y6.zip's g15pvi 
(for 32-bit Linux SDL1.2), but with ALT-DEL 
added (as in 32-bit Linux y6all) to create xo1.bmp,
xo2.bmp, xo3.bmp screencopies. The DEL button allows
access to the rest of Linux, and allows G15 PMN programs
to be run in the background. But, in contrast to how
it is in 32-bit, the mouse pointer device can only
be used when G15 PMN is in its preferred fullscreen
mode. This feature--that Fullscreen is the mode
of necessity to use mouse pointer--is shared in all 
the 64-bit Linux graphical flavours of G15 PMN in
this package. But G15 PMN is rarely mouse intensive,
and when it is much used in a particular G15 PMN
application, then, for esthetical reasons, it
ought to be fullscreen. There are technical reasons
why this makes more sense with a 64-bit Wayland
setup in any case, and we have chosen to put a
premium on the fullscreen mode for the 64-bit,
also because we want to emphasise that G15 PMN
is its own system--its own operating system of
a 32-bit kind with a dedicated monochrome 
fullscreen approach, and not just one of many
programs running on an overgrown partly second-
hand 64-bit platform. This ./neong15pmn startup is
the normal for programs where other parts of Linux
aren't required
  *neong15rworks Graphical, identical to 
  "neong15pmn" startup but with option to run all 
of Linux through commandline so suitable e.g. for 
robot handling; compatible with the 32-bit f3wx 
in the G15CONTROL package {it is much as G15ROBOT for
MsWindows, and as for keyboard handling the flavours
in this package are practically identical with 
G15ROBOT and if there are any differences, what
is in this package sets the standard for all
future implementations of G15 PMN at any hardware;
but the control of robots is much easier in such
as Neon linux where the command line is fine-
tune to do such hard work}.
  *neong15rstart Exactly as neong15rworks but 
autostarts program at F1 and exits platform 
completely when this program exits
  *neong15rmenu Exactly as neong15rworks but 
autostarts menu at H1 with the CTR-W mouse enabled 
already, so that various robot programs (or such) 
can be selected; when the program or programs have 
done running, then CTR-Q will completely finish the
G15 PMN session
  *neonramg15rworks Exactly as neong15rworks but 
with the RAM capacity expanded; the advise is to 
only use this when it is really necessary with that 
extra RAM, such as for heavy emulators, or G15 PMN FCM 
programs using vast sets of pattern matching 
databases simultaneously--it is however still 
32-bit and in no way do we change anything
whatsoever of G15 PMN total standard syntax to
achieve this. Given that the PC has capacity,
and that Linux is adequately generous to its
applications of RAM, you can create 32-bit
number arrays in these flavours of G15 PMN--
each one with the prefix "ram"--that are some
times greater than the maximal possible size
in the ordinary flavours. The good first-hand
programmer, you will know how to treat such
vast numberscapes with care--so that the 1st-
hand relationship to data is maintained. These
ram expanded forms of G15 PMN in this package
provide even more ram than the G15RBOTX package
for MsWindows.
  neonramg15rstart Exactly as neong15rstart but expanded RAM
  neonramg15rmenu Exactly as neong15rmenu but expanded RAM

The suffix letter "x" is added to each of these
flavours to allow for a slightly different feel
to the mouse more suitable for such as games,
when they use the mouse more.





CONFIGURING ROBOAPPS TO INTERACT WITH ROBOHARDWARE
================================================
  THE USE OF G15 PMN TO STEER ROBOTS VIA SUCH
  AS USB CABLES THROUGH WHICH RS232 PROTOCOL
  IS USED REQUIRES ACCESS TO WHAT LINUX CALLS
  SUCH AS /dev/ttyUSB0.
    THIS IS AUTOMATICALLY AVAILABLE FOR ROOT
  USER. HOWEVER IN 64-BIT LINUX THE ROOT USER
  METHOD MAY NOT BE THE ONE THAT WORKS WITH
  GRAPHICAL APPLICATIONS. SO, HERE'S HOW TO
  GAIN ACCESS TO THESE PORTS WHEN YOU START
  G15 PMN AS A LOCAL USER:

Note that robotapps often require access
to such as /dev/ttyUSB0. This is something
one automatically gets in administrator 
mode but there are reasons to run programs
in the normal local user mode. A local user 
will get it by being added to the proper group. 
So before you start steering devices through
such as USB-RS232 devices, do this type of
stuff on the command line, or find a graphical
program that can do the same by a number of
button clicks with the mouse; then reboot and 
try it out.

*** GETTING ACCESS TO RS232 VIA USB CABLES

As it is usually set up in gnu/linuxes 
there are two relevant predefined groups 
for RS232 VIA USB cables, and they refer 
to 'tty' and 'dialout' for historical 
reasons connected to modems.
So, in Konsole (a terminal), replace 
YOURUSERNAME with your user name and do
these:

sudo adduser YOURUSERNAME dialout
sudo adduser YOURUSERNAME tty

THEN DO A FULL REBOOT OF THE PC TO 
GET THE EFFECTS TO TAKE PLACE.

[[[The converse is:
sudo deluser YOURUSERNAME dialout
sudo deluser YOURUSERNAME tty]]]

This should be all that's required
to get full access to such as 
/dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, 
/dev/ttyUSB2 etc which again are
used in connecting to such robot
control electronics as eg the 
standard SSC32U card, into which
PMW servo and H-bridge motor robot
devices may be plugged.
  
Other devices, such as cameras, 
require perhaps a program like
"streamer" installed--easily done,
with the normal type of command like
"sudo apt install streamer",
but normally no additional things
such as group membership is 
necessary to access these cameras.

For some roboapps, there may be
more specific instructions as to
some particular programs or group
membership requirements.






BACKGROUND, AS TO GETTING G15 PMN TO 64-BIT LINUX 

G15 PMN is 32-bit oriented but it is something we 
also ensure that works on the most standard 
platforms, no matter what they are, as long as they 
are oriented towards full Personal Computers with 
mouse, large keyboard with  function keys, and a 
display not smaller than 1024 x 768 and capable 
also of showing monochrome green. 

Note that in how 64-bit linuxes with Wayland are
normally set up, the main mode for doing all sorts
of things that even vaguely involves graphics
is the 'local user mode' rather than what we can
call the 'administrator mode'. So, for instance,
most even small text editors work best without
doing the 'sudo -i' option first, in contrast to
how we adviced some work done in 32-bit Linux
in the y6.zip edition of G15 PMN. {{{A text editor
like "nano" can work in the administrator mode
but it can take some time to learn unless it has
been supplied with lots of easy shortcut keys.}}}





BACKGROUND, GETTING SDL2 INSTALLED IN THE 64-BIT LINUX,
AND CHECKING WHETHER YOU USE WAYLAND

Before you start G15 PMN for a wayland Linux, you want to be 
sure you have SDL2.0 in it. G15 PMN uses SDL in order to put
and fetch pixels to/from screen, to read X and Y motions
from mouse, and input from keyboard--nothing else. Therefore
SDL1.2 is more than good enough but only SDL2.0 and up are
for Wayland so this G15 PMN for 64-bit Wayland Linux
requires that SDL2 is installed. To be over-certain 
it is well installed, you might as well get the whole
developer edition. That has a nice open source feel to
it, in any case. SDL2 comes along with many applications
that uses a package mechanism, but G15 PMN prides itself
on being so simple to install that a .zip is enough;
however then one has got to look to just this one
library manually.

TO INSTALL SDL2 IN A LINUX WITH THE WAYLAND GRAPHICS
The SDL2 library [at libsdl.org] is a very free open source 
package that is widely used and with a generous license
associated with it. The G15 PMN flavours in neong15ways.zip
requires SDL2 and also requires Linux 64-bit Wayland.

To repeat the above:
THE SUPER-SURE WAY TO ESTABLISH WHETHER WAYLAND
IS THAT WHICH A LINUX PC IS RUNNING NOW:

First, is the Linux a Wayland linux?
In a local user Terminal, type
 
  env | grep -i wayland

and if some text comes up then, Wayland Linux does seem
to be what is running. Note again that this command only
makes full sense if you type it inside the Local user mode,
which is the standard mode that the program Konsole
starts when you start it from some typical menu, e.g. by
searching for Applications.

Then, go into Administrator mode:

  sudo -i

and type password. Be sure to leave the Administrator
mode when done with a series of actions to keep the PC
more safe. You leave it by the command 'exit'.

Type

  apt install libsdl2-dev

In case the Linux is up-to-date and complete enough and
the Internet line is working and fast enough to allow
some hundreds of megabytes of load, the Terminal will either
tell that it is already installed, or ask a Y/n question
about install, to which you can answer Y and press ENTER.

After a while it is installed. If you type the command
once more, it will say so.

REMEMBER TO TYPE exit TO LEAVE ADMINISTRATOR MODE
when done with such an action, both for the safety 
of your PC and in order to be able to access
graphical programs {for, unlike the typical 32-bit
Linux, a 64-bit Linux is often set up so that 
graphical programs only can run in non-administrator
modes unless tweaked; but the tweaks may not be
working for all programs}.


==================================






FOOTNOTES for g15 pmn beginners, enthusiasts & experts 


Footnote 1. HOW THE BRAIN IS STIMULATED IN G15 PMN

G15 PMN takes the approach that, up to a certain
point, when it comes to intellectual stimulation,
'less is more'--for the brain, the mind, the soul
of the interactor with the computer self-activate
when there is the sense that the computer is 
somewhat passive and not overwhelming the senses
in any ways. This is from the first bit to the last
a question of making computers in a way that is
friendly to human beings and not in any way
whatsoever leading to digital addictions.
  Then, with G15 PMN we take the approach that the
nurturing of pure concepts during programming is
healthy for the mind in the sense that a study, 
say, of classical boolean logic or elements of
trigonometry can sharpen and enliven. These pure
concepts must mean that the programs aren't always
super-flexible but that they are somewhat stolidly
doing their thing in a transparent way, with a
consistent response, not varying according to what
an uneducated person might think of as the 'mood'
of the machine. The machine is experienced as a
machine, consistent in how it works; stupid in
a fixed way, and smart only in a transparent way.
  As part of the nurturing of pure concepts, we
have taken to heart the approach that it is 
natural and stimulating for the human mind to
experience the pure forms of life as part of
the thinking processes so as to construct new
graphics, new texts, new programs, or other
such things with the help of a computer. These
pure forms of life, then, are more readily
shown by means of monochrome green than such as
monochrome black-and-white, and green is chosen
because numerous studies have shown that green is
not upsetting the brain cycles for day-waking and
sleep the way eg blue stimulation does; bright
green is the most relaxing and easy to pick up;
bright green tends to emphasize health and 
wholeness also for photos of human faces whereas
black-and-white or other monochrome alternatives
such as red-and-black tends to easily suggest
interpretations along unhealthy lines.
  Finally, the approach of G15 PMN is that 
stability in the underlaying platform is necessary
so that the human interactor, using the platform
over the years, can experience growth of own
insight and skill rather than being at the mercy
of whatever updates are about to be released. 
  For these latest reasons, also, we have worked
to anticipate a sense of how computing will be
when there is a greater emphasis on what we
call the RealLine mode, rather than the OnLine
mode--where such as internet doesn't have nearly
the equal importance--in other words, how the PC
ought to be when one has it by oneself and it is
supposed to be rather a full experience without
requiring constant additions from the outside
world. And in such a case, we felt, we would want
to follow up the esthetics along the lines of the
logic and conceptual purity with aptly enlivening
images in a core library that we haven't changed
since G15 PMN was fully complete as platform {G15
CPU programs were beginning to work in 2012 and
the G15 PMN platform was rather complete the
following year and after May 2015 has not have
one bit in its core changed at all--rather then
the work has gone totally into apps including 
Third Foundation and the apps building on the
G15 PMN Third Foundation}.
  Some of these images are quite unlike the 
rather nerdian or commercial culture that has
permeated some of the designers in the present
operating system world. But they are selected on
the premise, as are the example bits of games and
fiction and such included, to be a library of
also a bit of wildness, the purity of concepts
spiced up with a bit of that which is on the 
side just enough for the creativity to have the
tantric meditative feeling of wholeness.
  We are encouraging you to appreciate this
wholeness when you bundle G15 PMN into performing
a certain duty for someone, somewhere, but we are
not requiring you to include all these elements.
You can be sure, however, that they are all 
included with the best ethical and legal intents, 
and with the esthetical competence associated
also with years of painting, fiction writing and
philosophical writing.


Footnote 2. KEYBOARD & CAR EDITOR AND MORE: QUICKKEYS

The setup is US English standard ascii keyboard
with F1 to F12 and PgUp and Home key and so on.
The Numlock key can be used to switch between
numbers and such in the numeric pad, and PgUp and
and arrows and such. SHIFT undoes the NumLock on
state as long as SHIFT is held in. We follow the
approach of many MsWindows US English keyboards 
in having the extra key to the left of Z as given
to \ and | rather than to < and >, for the simple
reason that < and > are very easily available in
their normal position, as SHIFT-COMMA and 
SHIFT-DOT, and because the \ and | are characters
that may have a role in unusual font-setups where
the button to the left of Z may suddenly provide
easy access to these unusual fonts. We regard it
as a cross-cultural thing to use computers with
the US English keyboard, that has proven, over
many decades, to serve as foundation for vast
contact between people from all regions of the
world; overdone ethnicity implemented at the
hardware level of keyboards and so on only has as
effect to discourage cross-cultural learning and
G15 as computer approach sticks to this keyboard,
no matter what font approach is used on the screen.

As you surely already know, the G15 PMN keyboard is
dedicated to a smiling worldview. That's why there 
is no delete button on it--as it is logically 
conceived--and the peculiar presence on this button
in some personal computers is therefore taken, by
deduction, to mean that there is a surrounding or
--as we like to say it--underlaying environment
that is different from G15 PMN; hence, the delete
button calls on this environment and let you do
things. The ripe approach in 64-bit Linuxes and
onwards is that the mouse cannot be used to steer
things within G15 PMN when this button has been
pressed until it is pressed again and the natural
fullscreen mode of G15 PMN is back.
  ALT-DEL creates xo1.bmp, xo2.bmp, xo3.bmp. To
make black'n'white or white'n'black try, in a 
Konsole, such as ./xoprint xo1.bmp new.bmp 
and ./xoprinti xo1.bmp new.bmp then 
a typical linux command like 'convert new.bmp new.png' 
or 'convert new.bmp new.gif' make these more compact.

You already know that CTR-Q quits the main menu
and the socalled CAR editor so that you get back 
to where, amongst other things, MNT {to mount
G15 apps} and REB {to reboot, that is to say, to
exit G15 PMN temporarily} can be typed. The
lineshift should be pressed whenever you are
in doubt what to type--it is very often called
for--eg after typing CAR you press it several
times to get on.

You already know--we assume, because you have
spent hours and hours with all the hundreds of
documentation pages in the various forms of
G15 PMN.. :-) that the G15 PC keyboard proper
really has no caps lock so SHIFT-TABL {and other
modifier keys together with TABL, ie, tabulator}
serves as a caps lock key. But then, since caps 
lock usually is provided in other computer 
platforms, the normal caps lock applies AS WELL. 
If you can't get the caps lock off, then first 
turn the led-driven caps lock off, then try 
SHIFT-TABL.

You already know that CTR-R centers the textmarker
in the edit mode in the socalled CAR editor--the
big bright font area with the menues. You already
know that CTR-W activates mouse so you can click
on what is pointed to by the up-arrow between the
disk-letter and the card-number, eg, after B9edit
editor, there is C/599 written. The / is in G15
a sort of flower or twig or up-arrow and it takes
the place of the over-used and ill-designed and
illogical percentage symbol in the 7-bit standard
Ascii as we see it. To make it, use SHIFT-5.
  Click on this arrow in the Menu mode {ie, after
CTR-W}, to start any program. You can TYPE IN
THAT TYPE OF STUFF IN ANY CARD to start any program.
Use a colon instead to open any card for editing
or viewing. That is the superb ease of the gui
that we designed with G15 PMN.
  Press Right-Click on mouse to undo the action
of Ctr-W, in other words to go from Menu mode
to Edit mode when in the Car editor. You need to
be in menu mode to click on colons, eg between
d and 10 as in d:10 {which is an utility menu
on the main g:15 card}, and to click on the
arrow as well, to start up these programs.
  When in the edit mode, you can edit cards--
just type on them--and save and such--and you
can also have a look at a brief but complete
overview over the essential Yoga6dorg G15 
assembly instructions, underlaying the G15 PMN,
and which are used in a sort of 'just-in-time'
fashion whenever you compile PMN in G15 to
then start up an application.
  Click CTR-S to save or CTR-L to load--you must
type in the card letter plus card number, a
combination that is called "card-id", like i15,
each time, because we want to emphasize relation-
ship to numbers.
  Click CTR-C to copy a range of cards and CTR-T
followed by space to insert them. By experimenting
with these two, you'll find that you can edit
as large programs or texts or databases as you like 
(you have over two million cards availabe on each 
disk) by copying an extra large number of cards
and going some cards to the left or right, by
means of PgUp and PgDn. Home key brings you back
to the G:15 card.
  When doing editing in Car editor, tabulator
key removes a bunch characters. Arrows and End
and such moves around.

In B9Edit, there are handy quick-keys, listed
in the g69 document. These include such as:
ctr-arrowdown to remove a line,
insert to insert a character, alt-home to
go to beginning and do a search, alt-end to
go to the completion. You will be delighted to
know that the B9edit is minimal enough to 
never clutter your writing process with any
unnecessary information at any point and your
hands, when they know the keyboard, don't have
to move from the keyboard over to the mouse at
any point--because it is a typewriter like
process that we sought here, so we didn't do
anything whatsoever by means of mouse in the
B9edit. And it respects your lineshifts, so
that you have to end each line by clicking
enter and it never does any wordwrap because
wordwrapping removes the soul-characteristic
of the lines with your own lineshifts. If you
want wordwrap, make it yourself. It's all 
G15 PMN.   

Click F1 to exit B9edit, F12 to exit Gem,
and other programs can have other exit ways.

When you make new programs, feel free to use
such as ALT and CTR also in combination with
function keys but have respect for the 
possible environments in which the G15 PMN
program is performed in--that some of these,
such as Linux, may want to use ALT-CTR 
together with this and that function key for
its own purposes.  

And, finally, you already know that the
Third Foundation app, app# 3,333,333, offers
you a superb way to look up any definition of
any standard predefined, PD, word (of two
letters), and also any word of three letters
or more written in PMN proper. Just start up
the Third Foundation (TF) terminal, typically
apps put it to F/1, and type
  scan
and then you can type eg
   aw:
{put a blank before the first letter whenever
you search up a predefined word} then specify
range
  f1
  2222
that is to say, 2222 cards up from card f1.
As it locates this predefined word to scan
Arrays Within range, type
  car
and press space to see more cards, then q to
quit listing them. To view the definition eg
inside TF of a word like scan, type
  scan
then type in
  scan=
  f1
  3333
that is to say, start at card f1 but go for
more than 3000 cards up, not just 2000, 
because the Third Foundation goes all the
way up to f2411 {and higher if the TF has
been expanded the way eg roboapps expands 
it}.
  As it locates the definition of the 
higher-level function, type
  car
and press space to see its cards then q
when you have seen enough. Type
  qu
and press enter to exit the TF terminal and
return to the CAR editor. 



Footnote 3. GRANULARITY OF BRIGHT GREEN IN SDL

As a G15 PMN programmer, you are probably aware that
such as GEM images, which is eminently beautiful also
when used for photographs of human beings and nature,
stick to the approach of 64 tones spread over the
range 0..255 as 'green intensity numbers'. 64 tones
provide smooth transitions. In the G15 docs, here and
there, it is stated that this range is in fact all 
that is used no matter which pixel-write method is
employed. While this is correct to assume in general,
and this is the approach taken for tailor-made 
applications in the future, the abnormally observant
perfectionist may have noted that in the Linux 
versions with SDL1.2 and with SDL2 there are 256 
tone ranges for some pixel-write method. We have 
done this because it is faster to simply output
this than to right-shift then left-shift just to
shave away the extra two bits and because it is
practically undetectable in by far most 
circumstances. But the perfectionist programmer may
want to know that 64 tones is what we are going to
go for generally, when the Intraplates form of 
electronics arrives with the Avenuege G15 PC with
Avenuege robots, and apps should be made with this
orientation.


Footnote 4. HOW ROBOTIC CAMERA INPUT CAN HANDLE COLORS

The esthetical and enforce-first-hand-meaningful-limits-
on-computers approach has led us to monochrome green. In
the case of robots, obviously there are cases in which
distinction between more colors incl tones blending
with such as blue, yellow and red is relevant. This can
be arranged eg as follows: assuming that there is a color
camera attached to the PC, as part of the script reading
from a camera, extract such as C, M, Y, K or R, G, B color 
aspects by means of the conversion program used on the 
pathway to .bmp for GEM input. Produce by this four or
three .bmp the corresponding quantity of GEM images and
do pattern matching over their combined lot by means of
a suitable normal G15 PMN function in the roboapp. 
  In other words, ANY sensory modality of any kind
for which one can make a measuring device can, 
obviously, be inputted to, and analyzed, by a program,
and more colors than the green tone range is just one
example.


Footnote 5. RS232 AND THE G15 PMN STANDARD MENUES

You may have noticed that the G15 PMN menues, in one 
of the utility menues you can navigate to by means of
clicking through the main menu at card G:15, includes
a card dedicated to RS232 examples. RS232, despite its
technical-sounding names, is eminently simply to 
create in terms of what is required at the level of
electronics. Therefore, it is an important type of
standard, an important type of protocol. In the 
Firth, Dos version of G15 PMN, when run directly on
classical PC hardware, this card does indeed interact
with the physical RS232 ports. In the Avenuege G15 PC
{in planning}, there will, amongst other fancy stuff,
also be RS232 ports--physically, not just as an
emulation--and indeed this G15 PMN menu card applies 
to that hardware as well. When G15 PMN is run on top
of other types of platforms, the G15 RS232 commands 
aren't doing anything.
  In Linux, the access is most efficiently carried
out via text commands sent to the command line and
the roboapps, when tailor-made to interact with
Linux, does it this way, and, as 
  genifun.com/openrobotics
shows, very successfully so.


Footnote 6. USE OF TEXT TERMINAL STARTUP

While G15 PMN is in its own world and is supposed to 
run all sorts of programs, and allow editing of them,
and re-running of them, it also advices frequent use
of REB during program. In addition, G15 PMN can output
info--in its prospective own hardware, on a small
sidescreen called 'robotic display'--there is a 
special "G15 CPU" instruction for this (with no name,
only a number, 47). G15 PMN has hardly any startup
configuration to do during startups, and so it can
start very rapidly each time. 
  When a programmer uses another platform like
gnu/linux around or under it, then the textual output
that otherwise would have been oriented towards that
'robotic sidedisplay' comes out on the text terminal,
and easily seen during or after G15 PMN performance
on the text terminal. By checking that there are no
messages on this text terminal, you get an extra
check, beyond checking the state of the stack and
seeing that the programs works fast and as it should,
that you have programmed correctly. That's why it's
a great idea to use a method like
  ./neong15pmn
to start up in a text Konsole during intense 
programming of apps (the word 'app', by the way,
in G15 PMN contexts, is merely an abbreviation for
'application', in other words, a program); and after
CTR-Q and REB to quit G15 PMN the normal linux terminal
allows arrow-up to get earlier text commands back,
as you probably know. In addition, when a program
tries to access a meaningless RAM address, the PC
will usually report, on the Terminal line, something
about 'segment fault'; and the careful programmer
adds things step by step so it is easy to see where
this thing arose and then it is fixed, in the normal
process of program correction, as the final phase of
completing a good program.


Footnote 7. MINIMUM SET OF FILES TO START G15 PMN

G15 PMN is a truly open programming language and
its core is free to be used by anyone. However we
do want those who set G15 PMN to be used as part
of an application bundle to acknowledge this fact
clearly during startup. Apart from that, you can
use them as you like, as long as it is legal and
ethical enough.

A folder that only contains that which you need to
run a particular app should have:
  neong15pmn    neong15pmn.sh   015icon.png
{or whatever command or command set with .sh
you use to start the flavour of G15 PMN sought;
usually, for the flavours in this package}

And these datafiles--which appear as logical disks--
these do not have any part of them that are absolutely
reserved for the system {system disks are adisk and
bdisk and in Linux these are internalized in the program
file}. So you are free to set these up as you like it,
just be sure that the programs you do in fact include
have the data areas they usually expect intact--and
each program will usually tell in the beginning, eg 
as a comment, which data areas are expected:
  cdisk.g15 ddisk.g15 edisk.g15 fdisk.g15 gdisk.g15
  hdisk.g15 idisk.g15 jdisk.g15 kdisk.g15 ldisk.g15
as well as {not necessary if there is no image import
or export}:
  palette.dat xopalete.dat bmpgreen.dat 
  muscle.bmp black.bmp xoprint xoprinti 
.dat's are used in GEM image export, screen image
making, and in the treatment of images that such
as xoprint and xoprinti are doing; black.bmp is
suitable when Gimp copies an image and pastes on
top of this 500x500 to save {without color space
info stored in 'Settings' during export} to create
an importable .bmp of exact the same bytesize}. As for
image import/export, there are some 64-bit freeware
bits that can do additional conversion in the folder.



Footnote 8. PETITE POINTS OF GLORY FOR G15 PMN PERFECTIONISTS

  * As you perhaps already know, when calling an external 
program from G15 PMN, eg for some hardware for robotic
input or output, there is a pause, small or not so small,
in G15 PMN performance; any G15 PMN function that somehow
is very dependent on timing should be checked as to the
effects of these pauses on that; see also the next note 
  * The approach taken in all flavours in this package 
is that when 'empty keybuffer' is called, this really 
should empties the buffer of everything that is pressed; 
however in some of the 32-bit versions, the emptying 
takes place in a way that only focusses on the internal 
G15 PMN buffering rather than the external buffering by
the surrounding operating platform. As a result,
the emptying of keybuffer may not be total in these
earlier verions when combined with a call to an
external program.
  * Whatever there is of tiny workarounds in the standard
G15 PMN these are listed and, if need be, dealt with by 
apps, on the app page for G15 PMN, of which the main
page is norskesites.org/fic3/fic3inf3.htm. The minute
things are easily dealt with. Third Foundation app 
manual also has some info on some workarounds, cfr the
'new number' called UNDEFINED there. The Anaiis manga
inspired cartoonish story is showing its text properly,
ie, without the clipping of the left side of the text,
in its more complete app version {the first version of
it was made using a flavour in in which no clipping 
takes place even though the lines are too long and
filled up with spaces--but in the app version, the
function 'cliptext' exists, and is used.} Anyway, the
story is for specially interested...
  * Yes, you can rename and copy back and forth the
.g15 disk files, just do it when you have quit the
session using these.
  * Your secret key can be the "5" of the Numeric pad
when the Numlock is off. You can work out what the
keycode is for it yourself, and put it to use in a
program {don't count on such codes on the side of the
mainstream keys to work in the earliest flavours of 
G15 PMN, but what is here in these flavours is 
a setting of a standard}. 
  * As may not have been pointed out, the command to
empty keybuffer {G15 assembly calls this EK} also
temporarily empties the 'mousebuffer', ie, any check
on whether the mouse is pressed as the first thing
after EK is called will result in 'no press', no matter
whether it is pressed or not. 
  * Most flavours of G15 PMN {except some of the earliest 
made, which has some extra keycodes for numeric keypad}, 
and as intent as a standard, provides the same key codes,
when the predefined word in G15 PMN Third Foundation "KI"
is used, when PgUp and such is typed at the main part of 
the keyboard and when PgUp and such is typed at the numeric 
keypad, when  the NumLock isn't on. In other words, the 
numeric keypad is given entirely standard codes--the 
enter key is the same as the main enter key, and so on. 
And so this should be how it is programmed. 
  * As some of the G15 PMN docs point out, of CTR-key 
combined with a letter, prefer to use B..Z as the CTR-A 
may give different results on different platforms
unless you look at it carefully.
  * The apps show you how you can expand fonts as
much as you please, to any kind you like. Before you
go for this, though, may we give a bit of good press
for the approach of using rbotfont and b9font, the
two inbuilt fonts in the G15 core? First of all, when
it comes to certain technical thinking tasks, the
robotfont or rbotfont uses just a few pixels, and
with those few pixels it manages to display everything
of 7-bit ascii with a fantastic contrast between the
letters, and between the digits, and between digits
and letters, and to do so in a way that is generally
uplifting--pointing up--and, while doing all this,
it also encourages a sense of the arrythmic. Ie, it
contributes to numerous holistic aspects of the
consciousness flow, not dragging the mind into a
mesmerized half-dream,--it turns the autopilot off
and does it by the force. And it is fast. And, what's
more, when you work with the CAR editor to make
G15 PMN program cards, the very shape of just those
letters when in big black on bright green inspired
just those very command structures of the language.
It has a dot to indicate uppercase and so uppercase
and lowercase is united in this led-display friendly
font.
  Turn attention now to b9font. When you bring it
up, you bring up a vast contrast to robotfont. Where
robotfont comes fast, b9font takes a little time,
at least when it is much on the page--for a big
matrix is used even though few bits of it may be
used for a character. That gives it a different
timing feeling--and provides something almost 
sensual and humane to the font. It is arrythmic, but
musical sensitive where rbotfont is fascinatingly
crude. Its digits are in italic, rather,--setting
the digits apart from the letters, and that is a
philosophical point that goes all the way into 
thinking about the formation of the number concept
and how finite numbers only makes sense in some
contexts whereas letters have an altogether different
role. The letters are almost handwritten but still
strict enough so that, when you get used to them, you
find that every character is just that--a character,
of its own. 
  Now pay attention to how the eye handles such as
impressionistic paintings: they are painted using
just some 'fonts' in the sense of paintstrokes,--
and just that gives calm and order and harmony--
whereas if some parts of the painting has great
detail and other parts have crude paintstrokes it
gets broken up and no longer gives that peace of
mind to the observer. If you look up the roots of
the word 'tacky', then it suggests a lack of 
wholeness. So when digital frames are put on top 
of each other and they have many fonts, it doesn't 
exude wholeness, and so that is 'tacky'. Limit it 
a lot, and you get MORE, not less. The tackiness 
vanishes as you almost violently limit the fonts.
So given that limitation, and the other conscious
limitations in the G15 approach to computing as
well, you unleash your mind, you can have a sense
of wholeness.
  * Other points: the use of predefined words such as
KI {the typical way to get character input in G15 PMN
in that KK and KF is combined in a good way}, is so
that for normal ascii visible character input, the KK,
as well as KI, provides just this result; while for 
any function key input, KF, as well as KI, provides
just this result; and when both can be expected, KI is
the chosen predefined word. If you type a visible
character and use KF then the result may be subtle
different between platforms. The emerged approach is
this: KF gives 1 for a plain visible character without 
any key like SHIFT applied; but in case SHIFT is 
applied, it would be the combination code of SHIFT 
with the unshifted character, eg 100100 for SHIFT
as another example, it would be 1 when the key that
has dot and greater-than character on it, but 
10046 when shift and that button is clicked, 46
being the central dot. The one chief exception is
the button the left of Z, which has different uses
in some US English platforms--sometimes for \ and |
and other times for < and >. Here, the KF returns
60 (for <) while KK returns 92 (for \) while 
shift with this key gives, predictably, 10060 for
KF while KK gives 124 for the | bar. KI, however,
gives what the keyboard layout of G15 is, 
consistently, namely 92 and 124.
  Generally, the chief approach is to use KI or to
only use information from KF {or its G15 assembly
equivalent} when KK {or its G15 assembly equivalent}
doesn't provide it. Look up the definition of KI
in the Third Foundation {use the scan function,
scan for " ki:" at card f1, range 2222 cards or
so}, if you want to see how this cross-flavour
pd word is made.
  

Footnote 9. WHEN YOU USE TERMINAL IN LINUX A LOT

This is something Linux experts do all the time;
perhaps you are one of them, or getting to become
one of them. In case you don't know how to make a
snappy command for a program with a long name that
you often call up in Terminal command line, here's
how:
  Let's say that you want to make a short-cut text 
command for gwenview. It's a lovely name but a long
one. You may want to call it 'vu'. First, you check 
whether the vu is already in use. You open Konsole 
and type it in:
  vu
and it reports that it didn't find it. Okay, in
such a case, let's try and put it to use. Then,
  whereis gwenview
The first location it tells is usually the 
interesting one. It says /usr/bin. So let's go
to work:
  sudo -i
And you type your password.
  cd /usr/bin
  ls vu
It will tell you, again, that it didn't find 'vu'.
This was just a double-check. Then type:
  ln -s gwenview vu
  exit
And from now on, 'vu' has a symbolic link to 
'gwenview' and this link will normally be correct
even after updates to that program. Check how the
new shortcut text command works eg by this:
  cd ~/neong15ways
  vu neonstart.png
In order to remove such a symbolic link we have
manually created, we just go back to the same
place where we created it and do an rm; in this
case, eg:
  sudo -i
  cd /usr/bin
  rm vu
  exit
Be sure, though, that when you give programs to
others, you don't rely on such shortcuts, as they
should be set up manually by the expert user and
not be part of a program release.
  That completes this little hint! Good luck!


Footnote 10. BEGINNING TO SET UP THE RSTART FLAVOURS

The ..rstart flavours are interesting in that they
provide a kind of turnkey application--dedicated to
a G15 PMN app and just that. Every one of them have
the ..rworks flavours capacity, so you can use it
to steer robots. When the app exits, the whole thing
exits. You can set this up by mounting an app, 
copying each of the elements to disks not used by
that app, unmounting the app, and copying it back
to the right places--for instance.
  But you can also work through Linux and change
the .g15 disk files directly. For instance, in the
neong15ways package, the Third Foundation is 
included, and that means that f3333333.g15, which
is part of the Third Foundation app, is inside the
package you've got here. This autostarts the Third
Foundation terminal, so you can use a command like
"scan" to scan definitions of words, and the
command "qu" to quit the TF terminal--as examples.
  To set it up to run in ..rstart, just open Konsole
and type something like this:
  cd ~/neong15ways
  cp fdisk.g15 fdisk.bkp
  cp f3333333.g15 fdisk.g15
And then try one of the ..rstart flavours, eg:
  ./neong15rstart
and, voila!, the Third Foundation starts. {In 
case of there being nothing at card F:1 to
satisfy the ..rstart option, it will come with
a slightly cryptic G15 assembly message, which
makes sense if you look into the Yoga6dorg G15 
assembly syntax, and PMN is written in G15,--
thereby it is called G15 PMN.} To set the fdisk 
back to what it was before we tried all this, 
let's copy back the .bkp we made:
  cp fdisk.bkp fdisk.g15
Now we can start
  ./neong15pmn
as usual.
  




        This completes the 015inneon.txt 
        inside neong15ways.zip. Note that
        as G15 PMN is stable and versionless
        we aim, ideally, to produce packages 
        that are useful in any decade no 
        matter the original release date.
        This approach is coupled with the
        approach of providing new packages
        to fit with any major changes in
        dominant relevant PC product platforms.        

        Suggestions? Hints? You can contact
        author at srw at avenuege dot com or
        see other contact info at links from
        yoga6d.org/look.htm

               G*O*O*D***L*U*C*K

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