[GRASSLIST:8316] Re: Starting GRASS under cygwin

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 16 08:03:42 EDT 2005


> As a newbe I find lots of difficulities in handling GRASS under
> cygwin. (unfortunately I have no Linux at hand) Can somebody help me
> with this: I start GRASS using grass61.bat in windows XP. In the
> beginning, the Data Selection screen came up to chose location and
> mapset. After that the display manager would start automatically. Now
> (without I am aware of any change I did) a bash window comes up after
> clicking on the grass61.bat icon; I have to type in location and
> mapset, press ESC and Enter, than enter d.m & to start the display
> manager.  Any clue what I have to change to get back to the original
> behaviour of grass61.bat? best regards,


grass61 -gui


watch out for error messages that the X server can't be found. You may
have to start from an xterm, ie from within X after "startx" or
whatever you need to do to start X.



Hamish




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