[GRASS-user] grass70 and display monitor

[Michael Barton]

On Dec 5, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Markus wrote:
>>>  I type in bash CTRL-R and a fraction of what I remember of
>>> the name, then maybe another few CTRL-R to cycle to the right
>>> one. Enter and I see it.
>>
>> fwiw I find ^r a bit confusing to use. (user ignorance of the  
>> sublties
>> I'm sure..)
>
> I am working on many different remote systems, so I try to learn
> the necessary minimum rather than focusing on a personal
> optimization (sure I agree that that is handy if you work on
> your only one or a few machines).
>
> ...
>
>> for one thing I'd consider running that tunneled over ssh+X to a  
>> remote
>> number cruncher, but not a real GUI. a while ago while traveling and
>> only a borrowed win2k + puTTY to work with I rigged up a system where
>> the png driver wrote the display image across to a apache public dir
>> which I could reload in the web browser. not ideal, but it worked.
>
> Right, working over ssh in GRASS is very common for me (70% of
> overall time, often even over unstable connections). So I learned to
> love "screen" to not crash the GRASS session. The d.* approach
> consumes little resources only, that's why I like it so much...

Can the d.* rendered to a small footprint image viewer work in this  
setting?

Michael

>
> Will later comment more on a previous mail of Michael.
>
> Markus