On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Johannes Radinger < johannesradin...@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". > > [1] > http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Location_Wizard#Text_based_location_wizard > [2] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/grass7.html > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Moritz Lennert < > mlenn...@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. >> >> Moritz >> >> >> >
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