d.mon2 - GRASS GIS manual

NAME

d.mon2 - Starts a graphics display monitor which can be controlled from the command line.

KEYWORDS

SYNOPSIS

d.mon2

d.mon2 --help

d.mon2 [-cbd] [width=integer] [height=integer] [handler=string] [tempfile=string] [percent=integer] [color=string] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

Flags:

-c: Use the Cario driver to render images
-b: output Bourne shell code to set up display
-d: output DOS code to set up display
--help: Print usage summary
--verbose: Verbose module output
--quiet: Quiet module output
--ui: Force launching GUI dialog

Parameters:

width=integer: Width for display monitor if not set by GRASS_RENDER_WIDTH; Default: 800
height=integer: Height for display monitor if not set by GRASS_RENDER_HEIGHT; Default: 600
handler=string: Window program to use; Options: ximgview, wximgview, wxpyimgview, qiv, none; Default: wximgview
tempfile=string: Name and location of temp file
percent=integer: Percentage of CPU time to use; Default: 10
color=string: Background color, either a standard GRASS color or R:G:B triplet (separated by colons); Default: white

DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR

DESCRIPTION

This is just a little experiment to see if we can make the ximgview, wximgview, and wxpyimgview programs a bit simpler to start up.

Add this to your ~/.grass.bashrc file:

  if [ `echo "$GRASS_VERSION" | cut -f1 -d.` -eq 7 ] ; then
     alias d.mon='eval `d.mon.py -b`'
  fi

By default the temporary file will be stored in $MAPSET/.tmp/ and cleared at the end of the session. You can put it somewhere else with the tempfile option. For example, when working remotely with PuTTY (ssh without tunnelled X) + Apache:

   alias d.mon='eval `d.mon.py -b handler=none tempfile=/var/www/grassmap.png`'

then just hit reload in your web browser whenever a refresh is needed.

AUTHOR

Hamish Bowman
Dunedin, New Zealand

SOURCE CODE

Available at: d.mon2 source code (history)