[GRASS5] open GRASS in own xterm

[Eric G. Miller]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 04:50:39PM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 04:24:56PM +0000, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > as new users tend to start "grass5" with a double click in
> > a file explorer (especially the (former) Windows users) it
> > might be a good idea to start GRASS in an own "xterm" *if*
> > the DISPLAY variable is set (= Xwin running). This click-idea
> > of course doesn't currently work.
> 
> Dont't,
> this is a task which the file manager has to solve.
> You can set the right options there.
> GRASS cannot do much about.
> (And it should not try.)

I agree with Bernard here.  This is not a problem for GRASS to solve.
Here in Debian GNU/Linux land, there's a slick "menu" program that
handles this nicely:

file: /etc/menu/grass

?package(local.grass):\
       needs=text\
       section="Apps/Local/GRASS"\
       title="GRASS 5.0b12"\
       command="/usr/local/bin/grass5"\
       icon="/usr/local/share/pixmaps/grass_sm.png"

$ update-menus

And, voila, "GRASS 5.0b12" shows up in every window manager menu, *and*
will be started in a terminal emulator if running under X.

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>

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