[GRASS-user] Startup issue: defaults to one mapset [RESOLVED]

[Micha Silver]

On 9/22/21 8:57 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>> Where do I look to find what's going on so I can fix it?
>

I don't think there is anything to fix:


At startup GRASS does not care about current working directory.

The default LOCATION/MAPSET is read from the ~/.grass7/rc file. Here on 
my system:

micha at RMS:~$ cat ~/.grass7/rc
GISDBASE: /home/micha/GIS/grass
LOCATION_NAME: ITM
MAPSET: Arava
GUI: wxpython
DEBUG: 0


If you want to start GRASS from some other LOCATION/MAPSET you just add 
the full path to the different MAPSET on the command line, as you showed 
below.


Never hurts to review:

https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/manuals/grass7.html


especially:


    EXAMPLES

The following are some examples of how you could start GRASS

*grass78*
    Start GRASS using the default user interface. The user will be
    prompted to choose the appropriate location and mapset.
*grass78 --gui*
    Start GRASS using the graphical user interface. The user will be
    prompted to choose the appropriate location and mapset.
*grass78 --text*
    Start GRASS using the text-based user interface. Appropriate
    location and mapset must be set by environmental variables (see
    examples below) otherwise taken from the last GRASS session.
*grass78 --gtext*
    Start GRASS using the text-based user interface. The user will be
    prompted to choose the appropriate location and mapset.
*grass78 $HOME/grassdata/spearfish70/user1*


> What I'm now doing to start grass from /data/grassdata is:
> grass /data/grassdata/<location>/<mapset>
>
> It works.
>
> Rich
>
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Micha Silver
Ben Gurion Univ.
Sde Boker, Remote Sensing Lab
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