[GRASS-user] Re: 6.3, OSX and X11

[William Kyngesburye]

On Jul 23, 2007, at 9:15 PM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:

> 2) echo $DISPLAY - returns nothing. In the bash shell, you just get  
> an empty line.
>
Are you sure this when GRASS is running - that is, in the Terminal  
window that is started by GRASS?  In a new/blank Terminal window this  
may well be unset.

>
> William Kyngesburye wrote:
>> Are you are using my build?  Yes, DISPLAY is set there, IF it is  
>> not set already.
>>
>> With GRASS running, what does this say:
>>
>> echo $DISPLAY
>>
>> It should be :0.0
>>
>> If you have something else setting DISPLAY - maybe  
>> in .bash_profile, .bashrc, .bash_login or .profile (I think that's  
>> all of them) - the GRASS startup script won't set it.

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