topic_settings(1grass)

✨ TOPIC: SETTINGS ✨

okay bestie, welcome to topic_settings 💖 this is the little group chat of GRASS tools that handle all your settings — fonts, colors, mapsets, region boundaries, database connections, the whole vibe. if you've ever been like "wait, which mapset am I even in??" this page is for you. no cap. 🫶

here's the whole squad, one by one, no skipping, no gatekeeping:

• d.colorlist — Outputs a list of all available display colors. literally every color your display can flex 🌈
• d.font — Selects the font in which text will be displayed on the user's graphics monitor. yes queen, pick your font, it's giving typography main character energy 💅
• d.fontlist — Lists the available fonts. window shopping but for fonts 🎀
• g.gisenv — Outputs and modifies the user's current GRASS variable settings. the environment variable bestie, get to know her ✨
• g.mapset — Changes or reports current mapset. are you lost? this tells you where you are, or moves you somewhere new 🦋
• g.mapsets — Modifies or reports the user's current mapset search path. it's the "who can I see from here" setting, fr fr
• g.region — Manages the boundary definitions for the geographic region. your little window into the world, keep it tight bestie 👑
• t.connect — Prints/sets general temporal GIS database connection for current mapset. temporal database connection: printed, or set, your choice 💀

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See also the corresponding keyword settings for additional references. (iykyk — go peek if you want the whole extended universe 🌸)

and if you're still nosy (respect), there's the Main index, the Topics index, the Keywords index, the Graphical index, and the Full index. go explore, they're all right there ⭐

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© 2003-2026 GRASS Development Team, GRASS 8.5.0 Reference Manual 🫶

and that's the tea, bestie — this page lives in GRASS 8.5.0, the reference manual's been running since 2003 all the way to 2026, and it's still iconic. topic_settings(1grass) ate and left no crumbs. periodt. 🎀💖