[GRASS-windows] Re: [GRASS-user] Xming as X server for winGRASS?

[Luigi Ponti]

Dear Paul,
thanks for your prompt reply.

Paul Kelly wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Luigi Ponti wrote:
>
> A better course of action might be to try to revive the w11 driver 
> (--enable-w11 configure option) which is similar but uses Windows 
> functions instead of sockets. I don't know how near being finished it 
> is; might be worth looking at.
The most recent thread I have found on the topic suggests that this is 
still not a viable option.
http://www.nabble.com/GRASS-.-configure-options-td15482716.html#a15489963
>
> There's some discussion if you search the mailing lists for keywords 
> like w11 and pngdriver. It isn't necessary to have the XDRIVER working 
> for batch display functionality - you can use the PNG driver (in fact 
> that is probably easier) and direct rendering on Windows--or on any 
> other platform. See the list of PNG driver-related environment 
> variables in 
> http://grass.ibiblio.org/gdp/html_grass63/variables.html#png for some 
> ideas on how to control it.
If anybody has a pointer to a working example that would be great. While 
the concept is clear, the practicalities are not as evident by reading 
recent posts on the topic:
http://www.nabble.com/why-d.vect.thematic-won%27t-run-on-WinGRASS---d.mon-problem-td15054987.html#a15054987

Particularly, how do you tell the PNG driver where to start/stop direct 
rendering to png file without d.mon?
> Paul
>
Thanks and regards,

Luigi