[Freegis-list] no xterm?

[Dave Stevens]

I've recently installed Grass 5 on my Mandrake 8.2 system and am making 
some headway getting used to it. I am hampered, though, by an apparent 
inability of the GUI to open an xterm. When I try to open a new xterm 
through the menu I get this error message -

(traceback)

couldn't execute "xterm": no such file or directory
     while executing
"exec xterm -geometry 40x5 -e d.mon start=$monitor"
     (procedure "start_monitor" line 17)
     invoked from within
"start_monitor x0"
     invoked from within
".main_menu.mb0.m.m0.m0 invoke active"
     ("uplevel" body line 1)
     invoked from within
"uplevel #0 [list $w invoke active]"
     (procedure "tkMenuInvoke" line 47)
     invoked from within
"tkMenuInvoke .main_menu.mb0.m.m0.m0 1
"
     (command bound to event)

The system is like this:

TCLTKGRASS 3.2 (April 2001)
GRASS 5.0.0pre3 (January 2002)

and the system info from the help menu is:



============================================================================
System Information
============================================================================
Platform                Unix
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Operating System        Linux
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
OS Version              2.4.18-6mdk
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Processor Type (arch)   i686
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Full OS ID              Linux-2.4.18-6mdk-i686
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tcl Version/Patchlevel  8.3.3
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name of Executable      /usr/bin/wish
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name of current Script  /usr/local/grass5/tcltkgrass/main/tksys.tcl
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hostname                localhost.localdomain
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
User Name               dave
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

If I go to the open terminal window and type: d.mon start=x0 the new window 
opens ok and behaves well.

Any and all advice appreciated.

Dave
dstevens at bulkley.net


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