Hamish wrote:
Luigi Ponti wrote:
Installation instructions at
<http://grass.itc.it/grass62/binary/mswindows/>
..
Starting GRASS ...
Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk
applicationcouldn't connect to display "localhost:0"
Error in startup script: dynamic loading is not currently available
on this system
while executing
"load /usr/local/lib/tk8.4/../libtk8.4.a Tk"
..
Hamish:
Did you modify the bash line to run startx, launching X at startup?
bash --login -i -c startx
Yes, I did. Here is my cygwin_grass.bat file:
..
the next thing I see is the GRASS startup message
Cleaning up temporary files.....
Starting GRASS ...
And no X runs. GRASS starts in text mode but then it tries to load a
GUI and off course this fails.
No idea as to what is going wrong.
The plan is that cygwin starts X11 on startup (-c startx) in the cygwin
dos-box; then X11 opens a xterm when it starts; and that xterm launches
grass. The '-n "$DISPLAY"' part should protect against it trying to start
grass from the cygwin dos-box outside of X11. What does:
echo $DISPLAY
say from the cygwin dos-box prompt (not the xterm).
?
Hamish
It says
127.0.0.1:0.0
Nice cue: I had a $DISPLAY set via the winXP control panel that was
apparently interfering with the
if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ] && [ -n "$GRASS_AUTOSTART" ] ; then
switch at the bottom of .bashrc (this is probably why GRASS would start
before the XTerm was running, as you said. Now I understand the
rationale behind it).
As an aside, if I run a cygwin_grass_modified.bat script that is
basically grass61.bat (and all related environmental variables that are
set therein) except that I deleted the
run xterm ...
line and added
set GRASS_AUTOSTART=1
bash --login -i -c startx
what happens is that GRASS runs inside dos-box (or at least this what
the shell looks like -- the title bar says
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe") but since there is an X Server running,
the GUI loads OK and faster than with the regular cygwin_grass.bat file.
Apparently, the lower loading time is due to no XTerm starting up in the
latter case -- there is only one shell open. Don't know if this can be
of any use.
Unrelated thing: in the process I also found out that in order for the
g.manual script to display cygwin/GRASS HTML help files, the cygwin_root
environmental variable needs to be set up in cygwin_grass.bat
SET CYGWIN_ROOT=c:\cygwin
otherwise it is empty (it used to be set up by grass61.bat, but not by
cygwin_grass.bat) when g.manual calls it. (Again, from a previous post,
there is a lot of missing HTML help files in the version I downloaded --
6.2.2-1: is it just a download error?)
Thanks and regards,
Luigi
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