[Paraview] PV in client-server mode: external window "Visualization Toolkit: OpenGL"?

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Hi Peter,

Yup that's very normal. The OpenGL titled window that you are seeing is
the server side render window. When running in client server mode and
compositing is enabled, all renders on geometry greater than the user
specified threshold are sent to the (render) server. If compositing is
disabled (or compositing threshold is greater than geometry size), the
client renders locally. In either case, the final rendered result is
shown on the client.

If you don't want the server to render at all thus avoiding the poping
up of the OpenGL titled window, from the "View" menu
select "3D View Properties" and unselect the check box next to
"Composite". Note that the "Composite" slider/checkbox is visible only
when running in client-server mode.

Alternatively, you can use OffScreenRendering on the server side to
avoid the creation of the render window.

Utkarsh.

Peter J. Bismuti wrote:
> When I try and run PV in client-server mode I get a window that pops up that 
> has a title "Visualization Toolkit - OpenGL".  At times it appears that the 
> graphics is being rendered in this window, but it is very confusing as this 
> window and the normal graphics window go blank very easily and take quite a 
> while to redraw.  
> 
> Is this normal? 
> 
> Thanks
> 
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