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NAME
g.gui - Launches a GRASS graphical user interface (GUI) session.
Optionally updates default user interface settings.
KEYWORDS
general, GUI, user interface
SYNOPSIS
g.gui
g.gui --help
g.gui [-fdn] [ui=string] [workspace=name.gxw] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]
Flags:
-f
Start GUI in the foreground
By default the GUI starts in the background and control is immediately returned to the caller. When
GUI runs in foregreound, it blocks the command line
-d
Update default user interface settings
-n
Do not launch GUI after updating the default user interface settings
--help
Print usage summary
--verbose
Verbose module output
--quiet
Quiet module output
--ui
Force launching GUI dialog
Parameters:
ui=string
User interface
Options: wxpython, text, gtext
Default: wxpython
wxpython: wxPython based GUI (wxGUI)
text: command line interface only
gtext: command line interface with GUI startup screen
workspace=name.gxw
Name of workspace file to load on start-up
This is valid only for wxGUI (wxpython)
DESCRIPTION
The g.gui module allows user to start the Graphical User Interface (GUI) from the command line prompt or
to change the default User Interface (UI) settings.
GRASS GIS 7 comes with both a wxPython-based GUI aka wxGUI (ui=wxpython) and command line text-based UI
(ui=text).
NOTES
If the -d update flag is given or the GRASS_GUI environmental variable is unset, then the GRASS internal
variable GUI is permanently changed and the selected ui will be used as the default UI from then on.
All GRASS internal variables (see g.gisenv) are stored in the user’s home directory in a hidden file
called $HOME/.grass7/rc on Unix-based operating systems and %APPDATA%\GRASS7\rc on MS Windows. Note that
these GRASS internal variables are not the shell environment variables and the rc file is not a classic
UNIX run command file, it just contains persistent GRASS variables.
The old gis.m and d.m Tcl/Tk-based GUIs known from GRASS GIS 6 have been dropped in GRASS GIS 7.
EXAMPLES
Set default user interface setting to command line, text-based UI:
g.gui -d ui=text
Set default user interface setting to the graphical user interface (GUI) and launch the GUI:
g.gui -d ui=wxpython
Set default user interface setting to the graphical user interface (GUI) but do not launch the GUI:
g.gui -dn ui=wxpython
SEE ALSO
wxGUI, g.gisenv, GRASS variables
wxGUI wiki page
AUTHORS
Martin Landa, FBK-irst, Trento, Italy
Hamish Bowman, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand (fine tuning)
Last changed: $Date: 2014-04-21 13:55:01 +0200 (Mon, 21 Apr 2014) $
SOURCE CODE
Available at: g.gui source code (history)
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