[GRASS-user] tips on GRASS Mac users

[maning sambale]

How to configure middle-click for the zooming function in GRASS with
imacs mighty mouse?

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:03 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great! Thanks for the tips.  Using the mac right now.  This screen is huge
> maning
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 22, 2008, at 7:19 AM, <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org>
>> <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:18:48 -0500
>>> From: William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] tips on GRASS Mac users
>>> To: maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Message-ID: <59D9BD06-FDDD-4209-B3B4-C45505AAF1EA at kyngchaos.com>
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>>> On Jul 22, 2008, at 5:29 AM, maning sambale wrote:
>>>
>>>> By the end of this week we will have a new imac as a GIS workstation,
>>>> I am familiar with GRASS on linux and windows, but not on a mac.  I
>>>> know GRASS and QGIS install OK on a mac, so that won't be a problem.
>>>> Any other advise/caveats/warning as we do the migrate?  We will still
>>>> be using our linux machine for GRASS in parallel with mac,
>>>> specifically:
>>>
>>> Overall, OSX is much like *nix, since it's unix-based.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 1. all GRASS database files should be accessible on both machines, I'm
>>>> thinking of using the mac as the GRASS database repo (since it has a
>>>> larger Hdd capacity) and have linux read/write access
>>>
>>> OSX should have Unix file sharing, but you may have to dig around to
>>> configure and enable it.  Easiest on the Mac side would be Appleshare
>>> (AFP), and I think there is Linux client software for that.  Or you
>>> could use Windows file sharing on the Mac (it uses Samba), and it
>>> would also be available to Windows machines.
>>>
>>> Watch out for lots of network activity, though.  You probably don't
>>> want to write data over the network, lots of temp file usage in
>>> GRASS.  I'd say symlink common data mapsets to your linux
>>> workstation's GRASS data dir, and only do active work directly on the
>>> linux ws, then copy to the Mac when done.
>>>
>>> mac mount
>>>    grassdb
>>>        location
>>> linux grassdb
>>>    readonly loc -> mac mount/grassdb/location
>>>    working loc
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2. Shell scripts are usable on both machines
>>>
>>> FYI the default shell on OSX is bash.  AND, sh IS bash.  Other shells
>>> are available if you prefer another.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 3. Remotely access linux machine on the mac
>>>>
>>> No problems there.  I use ssh all the time for shell access between
>>> Macs.  VNC would be nice for GUI access.  OSX Leopard, which you will
>>> get on a new Mac, includes a nice builtin VNC client, and there are
>>> other free ones available.
>>
>> To William's sage advice, I'd add....
>>
>> 1) If you are installing binaries from William Kyngesbury's site, don't
>> forget to install the frameworks (i.e., dependencies) first.
>> 2) Make sure that you have x11 installed if you are using the TclTk
>> interface. I think it is finally installing by default with OS X 10.5, but
>> it is an optional install on all other Mac OS X systems. You need to get it
>> from your system disks.
>> 3) If you want to try the new wxPython interface, it *should* work with the
>> Python and wxPython that comes with OS X 10.5. For any earlier systems, you
>> will need to install this yourself because the version of Python that came
>> with prior systems is too old and did not include wxPython. You might want
>> to get a new version of Python and wxPython anyway. But if you do a BIG
>> CAVEAT!! Unless it's been fixed in recent weeks, do NOT get the current
>> wxPython 2.8.8.0. The Mac binary installation does not include some files
>> that are used in a startup version check (i.e., the *.py files; it only has
>> the *.pyo binaries) and the GUI will not start.
>>
>> Michael
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