[GRASS-user] setting monitor device

[Glynn Clements]

Milton Cezar Ribeiro wrote:

> I just intalled the WinGrass 6.3.0 NATIVE for windows and imported a binary
> map on a mapset environment.
> When I try "d.rast myraster" I get:
> 
> PNG: GRASS_TRUECOLOR status: TRUE
> PNG: collecting to file:
> C:/GRASS/database/newLocation/PERMANENT/.tmp/3832.0.ppm,
>      GRASS_WIDTH=387, GRASS_HEIGHT=484
> 
> But no information are showed on "Map Display 1" windows.
> 
> Need I redirect the raster output to "Map Display 1" or it is the default ?

You cannot control the GUI from the command prompt.

The GUI isn't the same thing as a "monitor". The native Windows
version doesn't have monitors.

If you run d.* commands manually on Windows, they just generate an
image file.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>