[GRASS-user] GRASS 6.2.1-1 Installation Question

[Glynn Clements]

Ramu Narayanan wrote:

> I have been able to use the Map Display Monitor UI as oppossed to typing in
> d.mon for displaying raster maps.  I have not encountered much difficulty
> with the UI when working with raster data.  Is there a text command that can
> be used to select the UI Map Display Monitor?
> 
> When I use the UI to display a regular raster map, I see the following in
> the Output window:
> d.frame -e
> d.rast map=<mapname> -o
> g.pnmcomp in=####.#.ppm mask=####.#.pgm opacity=1.00 background=255:255:255
> width=640 height=482 output=3648.1.ppm
> 
> The raster map loads up without problem.
> 
> however, when I type d.frame -e in the terminal, I get the same response
> that no graphics monitor has been selected.

gis.m doesn't use monitors; it uses the d.* commands to generate
PPM/PGM image files which it then loads and displays in a Tk canvas
widget.

gis.m cannot be controlled from the command line.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>