[GRASS-user] Choosing mapset from command line

[Moritz Lennert]

On 13/02/15 15:33, Johannes Radinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to access my machine with GRASS GIS via SSH and wanted to get
> the text based welcome screen of GRASS 7 (RC in Ubuntu) to select a
> mapset. Usually I am starting the GUI selection menu so I am not
> familiar with the text based startup. I thought that the command
> "grass70 -gtext" should launch the text-based menu however here I get:
>
> radinger at grassgis:~$ grass70 -gtext
>
> Cleaning up temporary files...
>
> Starting GRASS GIS...
>
> WARNING: It appears that the X Windows system is not active.
>
> A graphical based user interface is not supported.
>
> Switching to text based interface mode.
>
>
> Hit RETURN to continue
>
>
> With -gtext I already indicated that I don't want to start a graphical
> based user interface so I am wondering about the warning. With hitting
> return I automatically start with the last mapset I used (like the
> command "grass70 -text) and don't get to a text based menu to e.g.
> create and start into a new mapset of a given location.
>
> What I am doing wrong?

'-gtext' asks to show the GUI welcome screen
'-text' skips even that so that's probably what you need.

Moritz