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@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?
Of course I can create and switch to a new the mapset with g.mapset as an alternative.
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@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.
Maybe I expressed myself unclear or mixed things up:
I want to get the text based menu to select e.g. a location and a mapset, which I think is called “text-based location wizzard” [1]. I mixed that up with the “welcome screen”. And of course I don’t need the welcome screen.
I was just confused because the wiki [2] says:
“grass70 -text: Start GRASS using the text-based user interface. The user will be prompted to choose the appropriate location and mapset.”
However I get automatically started into my last session which is actually the definition of:
“grass70 -text Start GRASS using the text-based user interface. Appropriate location and mapset must be set by environmental variables (see examples bellow) otherwise taken from the last GRASS session.”
So is the location wizzard not exisiting anymore in GRASS70? If not, is g.mapset from within an existing mapset the recommended way to go to create and start into a new mapset? Another option would be only to create the mapset with g.mapset from inside an existing mapset and than to restart grass with “grass70 newmapset”.
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@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.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Johannes Radinger <
johannesradinger@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe I expressed myself unclear or mixed things up:
I want to get the text based menu to select e.g. a location and a mapset,
which I think is called "text-based location wizzard" [1]. I mixed that up
with the "welcome screen". And of course I don't need the welcome screen.
I was just confused because the wiki [2] says:
"*grass70 -text:* Start GRASS using the text-based user interface. The
user will be *prompted* to choose the appropriate location and mapset."
sorry thats the info for -gtext: "*grass70 -gtext:* Start GRASS using the
text-based user interface...."
However I get automatically started into my last session which is actually
the definition of:
"*grass70 -text *Start GRASS using the text-based user interface.
Appropriate location and mapset must be set by environmental variables (see
examples bellow) otherwise taken from the last GRASS session."
So is the location wizzard not exisiting anymore in GRASS70? If not, is
g.mapset from within an existing mapset the recommended way to go to create
and start into a new mapset? Another option would be only to create the
mapset with g.mapset from inside an existing mapset and than to restart
grass with "grass70 newmapset".
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Moritz Lennert <
mlennert@club.worldonline.be> wrote:
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@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.
Maybe I expressed myself unclear or mixed things up:
I want to get the text based menu to select e.g. a location and a
mapset, which I think is called "text-based location wizzard" [1]. I
mixed that up with the "welcome screen". And of course I don't need the
welcome screen.
I was just confused because the wiki [2] says:
"*grass70 -text:* Start GRASS using the text-based user interface. The
user will be *prompted* to choose the appropriate location and mapset."
However I get automatically started into my last session which is
actually the definition of:
"*grass70 -text *Start GRASS using the text-based user interface.
Appropriate location and mapset must be set by environmental variables
(see examples bellow) otherwise taken from the last GRASS session."
So is the location wizzard not exisiting anymore in GRASS70?
No. AFAIK all ncurses based interfaces have been removed.
If not, is
g.mapset from within an existing mapset the recommended way to go to
create and start into a new mapset? Another option would be only to
create the mapset with g.mapset from inside an existing mapset and than
to restart grass with "grass70 newmapset".
You can use the -c flag to create a new mapset or even a new location:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Moritz Lennert
<mlennert@club.worldonline.be> wrote:
On 13/02/15 16:58, Johannes Radinger wrote:
I want to get the text based menu to select e.g. a location and a
mapset, which I think is called "text-based location wizzard" [1]. I
mixed that up with the "welcome screen". And of course I don't need the
welcome screen.
...
You can use the -c flag to create a new mapset or even a new location: