[GRASS5] xwininfo error on Mac OS X

Glynn Clements glynn.clements at virgin.net
Tue May 27 00:32:01 EDT 2003


Nik Sands wrote:

> I'm new to GRASS and am having some trouble getting it to run on Mac OS 
> X.
> 
> I've installed TclTkAqua-8.4.2, and grass5.0.2 successfully, and can 
> start GRASS okay.
> 
> However, when I enter the "tcltkgrass &" command, I get the following 
> output:
> 
> ----------------------------------
> Error in startup script: xwininfo: error: No such window with id 
> 0xec0f08.
>      while executing
> "exec xwininfo -id [winfo id .w_g] | grep -i Corners"

"tcltkgrass" is written for a Unix/X11 version of Tcl/Tk; using it
with other versions of Tcl/Tk will result in errors.

In this particular case, tcltkgrass expects "winfo id ..." to return
the ID of an X window (which it does with a Unix/X11 version of
Tcl/Tk).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>




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