[GRASS-user] Umm...OK, How do I start this thing?

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 27 Dec 2020, mdwxman wrote:

> And that's a very good idea! I just went through the process of creating a
> link to the GRASS78 file. Your idea is something I never considered. I
> guess too many years of managing Unix and Linux systems with command lines
> has stopped the creative juices from using the GUIs that were put there
> for everyone's benefit!

Mike,

Your method of invoking grass should reflect how you want to work with it.
I've been using grass since version 4.0 (integer numbers only) and most of
the time work strictly from the command line. Now and then I want to use the
GUI so I'll start it that way ... from the command line.

You can select how it starts by, for example, $ grass79 -text or $ grass73
-gui (I beta test the development builds by using them when I do spatial
analyses.

The list of command line startup options is on a document page. I don't know
which one now that the web site's been restructured.

Stay well,

Rich