Grass on MkLinux Problem

[Morten Hulden]

On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Tom Gewecke wrote:

> I gave a try at compiling the small version of GRASS, Cutgrass4.2, for
> my mklinux Mac.  I have it running, but no graphics (I did compile
> XDRIVER and fix monitorcap).  When I try d.mon start=x0 or whatever, I
> get the message "Graph_Set: Can't open."  Any advice would be most
> welcome!  tom at bluesky.org

One reason for this, I have learned, is that if you 'su - <user>' you do
not get the DISPLAY environment variable in your new shell. 
So after suing and before running grass do a (in bash)

export DISPLAY=:0.0

and it should work. (Or just do not run grass from a su shell).

regards
Morten