[GRASS-dev] GRASS_BATCH_JOB vs GUI

[William Kyngesburye]

On Apr 5, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Hamish wrote:
>
> the first thing I do after installing X11 on Mac OSX is to stop it  
> from
> launching a xterm upon X11 startup.
>

We got that straightened out - Joe forgot to do that (it's mentioned  
in the OSX readme).

I also worked out some improvements in the app startup script to  
minimize the X11 focus switching.  Now it doesn't "open" (*) X11 if  
it's already running, thus avoiding a focus switch.  It also records  
which term application the script is running in (**) and returns focus  
to that.

So now, starting X11 before GRASS (ie on login), or just leaving it  
running after the first run of GRASS, seems to work well.


(*) 'open' runs an OSX application, and since an OSX application  
normally can only have one instance running, it only activates it when  
it's already running.  I used this as a shortcut to checking if it's  
running in the startup script.

(**) If run from a double-click or drag-n-drop, GRASS.app will always  
use Terminal.app, but the grass script, as Joe is doing, could be run  
directly from a different term app such as xterm or iTerm.

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