[GRASS-dev] GRASS & cygwin quite slow

[Moritz Lennert]

Glynn Clements wrote:
> Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
>>> Currently, the GRASS TclTk GUI works without X11. Almost all GRASS modules
>>> work without X11 or there is a TclTk replacement for critical modules.
>>> v.digit is the only major exception now. NVIZ without X11 may still be in
>>> transition. It still has problems on Intel Macs and I'm not sure about where
>>> it is for Windows.

Using the grass-cvs binaries from http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html which 
according to the web page date from April 17, 2006, even the gis.m seems 
to use X. At least, there is a large X in the top left of all the 
windows. The provided .bat file (http://geni.ath.cx/grass/grass61.bat) 
starts Xwin and then launches an xterm within that Xwin session.

So, how can I use the guis without X ?

> Having finally managed to compile a recent version under Cygwin (since
> updating Cygwin, --enable-shared no longer works), I've found another
> reason to make gis.m use immediate rendering.
> 
> Cygwin implements Unix-domain sockets using TCP sockets. On my system,
> the result is that running any d.* command pops up a ZoneAlarm dialog
> asking me if the command should be allowed to make network
> connections. This starts to get annoying rather quickly.

I can confirm this.

Moritz