[GRASS-user] Beginner (Mac): How do I display a raster in Map Display window using line commands

[Hamish]

I. Syncrasy wrote:
> I'm a complete beginner using GRASS
> 6.4.0 on a PowerPC Mac (OS 10.4.11).
> 
> I using the "North Carolina" sample data.
> 
> I am able to run line commands in the Output-GIS.m window
> (lists, info, etc.), but I am not able to use line commands
> to display graphical items in the Map Display window. For
> example, if I run "d.rast Slope", the command apparently is
> understood, but the Map Display remains blank.
> 
> Here is the Output-GIS.m log:
> 
> ------
> 
> PNG: GRASS_TRUECOLOR status: TRUE
> 
> PNG: collecting to file:
> /Users/my_home_directory/grass/nc_spm_08/user1/.tmp/G5.local/891.0.ppm,
>      GRASS_WIDTH=690, GRASS_HEIGHT=486
> 
> ------
> 
> Is there some special command I need to add to "target" the
> Map Display window? Do I have to set up a special directory
> first?
> 
> (Note: I am able to display rasters using the GIS Manager
> (GUI) window, so I know Map Display works, but I have to
> learn how to use line commands to accomplish the same
> tasks.)


First you need to have X-Windows installed (it comes on the Mac install
DVD). Then the magic command line command is "d.mon x0" to open a X-monitor.

As you discovered these can not be manually redirected to the main GUI
at this time.


regards,
Hamish