[GRASS-dev] [grass-code patches][280] Fix Help button in gis.m raster/vector display conf locks up gis.m

[Hamish]

Michael Barton wrote:
> 
> Starting browser <open> for module d.rast...

lib/init/init.sh sets this:

  elif [ "$HOSTTYPE" = "macintosh" -o "$HOSTTYPE" = "powermac" -o "$HOSTTYPE" = "powerpc" ] ; then
      GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=open


As for MacOSX you can do "open URL" from the command line to launch safari.

Apparently that forks itself into a background process, but that behavior
is specific to OSX's "open" command. If GRASS_HTML_BROWSER is set to a
regular program name, it probably won't background itself.


Hamish