[GRASS-user] Displaying layers - GRASS 6.4.0RC7 with MSYS

[Chethan S]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>wrote:

>
> Chethan S wrote:
>
> > I natively use GRASS in ubuntu but wanted to try it in windows as well. I
> > use GRASS 6.4.0RC7 with MSYS and referring to Open Source GIS -  A GRASS
> > Approach I wanted to display layers using following commands for the
> sample
> > North Carolina dataset -
> >
> > g.region rast=elevation -p
> > d.erase
> >
> > d.rast elevation
> > d.his h=elevation i=elevation_shade and so on...
> >
> > Prior to all these there was d.mon x0 command. It resulted in an
> > error.
>
> d.mon is the main feature which doesn't work natively in Windows. All
> d.* commands operating by generating an image file (by default, the
> file map.png in the current directory). For screen display, use one of
> the GUIs, or open the map.png file in a viewer which provides a quick
> way to reload the current file.
>
> Also, note that d.mon has been removed altogether in GRASS 7.
>
> --
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
>

Hello again!

Is displaying on x0 or cairo or png displays using d.mon, the only way to
display layers from command line even in linux? Isn't there a way to type
commands in terminal and get the layers displayed in GRASS GIS Map display
in wxGUI?

Regards,

Chethan S.
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