[GRASS-user] Qn on using Grass on windows

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Hi,

I’m quite new to using Grass on Windows, and would like to have the same experience as using it in a shell environment.

I recently installed Grass 6.4 on Windows through the OSGEO4 installer, and i managed to configure some settings so that i can use MSys.

However, when i enter my grass location and mapset, gis.m starts up with some monitors etc. in the Msys shell when i try to display a map
like
d.rast srtm

it seems to going into a png driver. how do i get my display commands to display on the monitors that open up through the GIS manager?

thanks,
Vishal

2

Display monitors are not supported on windows. Use GNU/Linux or render
to PNG and use some PNG displaying application to show result.

Maris.

2011/8/10 Vishal Mehta <vishalm1975@gmail.com>:

Hi,

I'm quite new to using Grass on Windows, and would like to have the same
experience as using it in a shell environment.

I recently installed Grass 6.4 on Windows through the OSGEO4 installer, and
i managed to configure some settings so that i can use MSys.

However, when i enter my grass location and mapset, gis.m starts up with
some monitors etc. in the Msys shell when i try to display a map
like
d.rast srtm

it seems to going into a png driver. how do i get my display commands to
display on the monitors that open up through the GIS manager?

thanks,
Vishal

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Maris wrote:

Display monitors are not supported on windows. Use GNU/Linux or
render to PNG and use some PNG displaying application to show
result.

fwiw, while not supported in the native installer, if you do need
them the XMonitors are there in the Cygwin install.

Hamish

4

I recently installed Grass 6.4 on Windows through the OSGEO4 installer, and
i managed to configure some settings so that i can use MSys.

Just as a note: we had quite a few issues recently with the GRASS
provided by the osgeo4w installer and ended up using the native
Windows version or the one shipped with QGIS for Windows.