topic_display(1)

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version 8.4.2 · 5 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ topic_display(1) ✨

okay bestie, so you know how GRASS GIS has like a million little modules and you never know where anything lives?? this is the manual page for the display topic — like, the group chat where all the "put pixels on a screen" besties hang out. it's part of the GRASS GIS User's Manual, and if you ever lose this page, the topic index will absolutely hold your hand and walk you back. 🫶

🌸 Topic: display 🌸

these are the modules that lowkey run the visual side of things. each one does exactly one thing and does it well. no cap. 👑

  • g.cairocomp — Overlays multiple X Pixmaps. yes ma'am, it stacks them up on top of each other. iconic behaviour tbh. 🎀
  • g.pnmcomp — Overlays multiple PPM image files. same energy as above but for PPM files sitting on your disk instead of X Pixmaps. 💅
  • g.ppmtopng — Converts between PPM/PGM and PNG image formats. a little format glow-up, both directions, no drama. 🦋
  • r3.mkdspf — Creates a display file from an existing 3D raster map according to specified threshold levels. it takes your 3D raster and a threshold, and hands you back a display file. 3D girlies, this one's for you. 🔥

👀 See also

See also the corresponding keyword display for additional references — so if this list isn't giving enough, the keyword has more. iykyk. 💜

🧭 Indexes, bestie

you can bounce around the docs from here:

  • Main index
  • Topics index
  • Keywords index
  • Graphical index
  • Full index
heads up: those index entries are your escape hatches. if you're lost in the manual at 2am (we've all been there 🙈), one of these five will get you home.

💌 the cute sign-off

© 2003-2025 GRASS Development Team, GRASS GIS 8.4.2 Reference Manual — so like, that's the copyright era (2003 through 2025, a long glow-up arc 🌈) and this whole reference manual is living at version GRASS 8.4.2. and the page you just read? it's from GRASS 8.4.2 too, fr fr. go forth and make pretty maps, bestie 💖✨🎀

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