[Insight-users] Re: [vtkusers] x server error on linux

[Kevin H. Hobbs]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 18:43 +0000, Jesse Corrington wrote:
> >Do you actually want to use the display or just do batch jobs?
> 
> I don't want to use the display.  I am just trying to do some offscreen 
> rendering of volumes to create movies of it rotating.

Good, that makes all the junk below irrelevant.  I don't know how to use
off screen rendering so I can't really help with that.  I always just
strip out all the render stuff and use files.  But for movies... 

> 
> >Do you have an X server running on your windows workstation?
> 
> No i don't, I am fairly new to unix/linux, so i don't really know about x 
> servers.
> 
> >Are you using ssh to login to the server?
> 
> yes, I am using win scp 3.
> 
> >What do you get when you type "echo $DISPLAY" on the server?
> 
> there is no output from executing this command.  And running a vtk sample 
> after this command still gives me the x server error.
> 
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