Problem launching GRASS from Ubuntu menu...

[grassyjohn]

...and a work-around.

I'm using ubuntu 9.04 and the GRASS 6.2.3 package.  I added a launcher to the GNOME menu (with "grass" as the command")  but GRASS crashes after selecting a mapset and clicking ENTER GRASS.

Strangely, when I invoke GRASS from the terminal, GRASS starts up just fine.  I have a feeling that there are extra options I need to add to the launcher, this being Linux.  However, if anyone else has been banging their head against this, just pop open a terminal.

[Maris Nartiss]

Hello grassyjohn,
I feel sorry for You that You had to "bang Your head against wall" to
get GRASS running. Some time a go there was a fix in GRASS to prevent
such problems but it got reverted by other developers as "user should
know what he does and deserves failure if he doesn't". [1] You can add
GRASS to menu, but You have to mark "launch in terminal" (or how it's
called on Gnome) option.


Maris.

1. http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2009-September/046458.html

2009/11/2, grassyjohn <[hidden email]>:

>
> ...and a work-around.
>
> I'm using ubuntu 9.04 and the GRASS 6.2.3 package.  I added a launcher to
> the GNOME menu (with "grass" as the command")  but GRASS crashes after
> selecting a mapset and clicking ENTER GRASS.
>
> Strangely, when I invoke GRASS from the terminal, GRASS starts up just fine.
> I have a feeling that there are extra options I need to add to the launcher,
> this being Linux.  However, if anyone else has been banging their head
> against this, just pop open a terminal.
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[hamish-2]

Maris wrote:
> I feel sorry for You that You had to "bang Your head against wall" to
> get GRASS running. Some time a go there was a fix in GRASS to prevent
> such problems but it got reverted by other developers as

... packaging stuff belongs in the packaging scripts.

> You can add GRASS to menu, but You have to mark "launch in terminal"
> (or how it's called on Gnome) option.

fwiw the latest Debian and Ubuntu packages provide a menu launcher,
desktop icon, and wrapper script to avoid this issue. On K.Koala all
should be in order. (or is that what you are using? :)


Hamish



     
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