[winGRASS] GUI trouble in WINGRASS

[Richard Greenwood]

On 7/11/05, David Hollema <dhollema at unitedpower.com> wrote:
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> I've installed cygwin, wingrass 6.0 etc and when I run grass60.bat, I the
> data selection dialog does not open.  If I open a shell and run the batch
> file, 
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> "Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY
> environment variable 
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> Cleaning up temporary files…… 
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> Starting GRASS … 
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> 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." 

Can you open the Cygwin Bash shell and type:
   startx
and get a X-Windows Bash shell running?

If not, type:
   export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0
then try 
   startx

Then from the X-Windows Bash shell:
   grass60


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