[GRASS5] open GRASS in own xterm

[Markus Neteler]

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.)

Sorry, why?

What about users starting GRASS in 
KDE-> K->execute
?
Then GRASS crashes as well.

As GRASS needs a shell window, why not coding that?

 Markus


> > Starting GRASS in its own xterm would reduce lot of confusion 
> > for them... Any objections?
> > We could use the same check mechanism already used for the
> > graphical startup.
> > 
> > Regards
> >  Markus
> > 
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