[GRASS5] Re: [GRASSLIST:8545] Re: d.m - commands output pollute the Grass terminal

[Moritz Lennert]

On Sun, October 9, 2005 07:47, Michael Barton wrote:
> Following up on a suggestion by Maciek and information by Glynn, I've played
> around with outputting GIS Manager commands to a separate terminal window a
> bit.
>
> Currently, all GIS Manager commands send their output to the GRASS terminal
> so that the relevant display commands are echoed there (using TclTk "puts"
> for each command).
>
> However, the GIS Manager can be started in a separate xterm where all
> command output will be displayed, keeping the main GRASS xterm free of this
> output and cleaner looking. The drawback is that it opens another window on
> the screen.
>

Yes, and I find that quite a strong drawback, as GRASS already opens quite a
lot of windows. Couldn't the GIS Manager output just be logged to a file, thus
making the output available to those who really need it without cluttering
terminal or screen ?

Moritz