o GRASS text mode startup "grass77" starts up g.gui by default (if not first time user). "grass77 --text" will start up in text mode. "grass77 --gtext" will start up with graphical welcome screen but continue then in text mode. "grass77 --gui" will start up in wxpython mode. You can set an alias "grass77" to e.g. "grass77 --text" to use text mode by default. Or set the environmental variable GRASS_GUI=text. See grass77 --help or the command's manual page for more details about invocation. Send any suggestions to at https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/