[Paraview] pvserver --help text

[Moreland, Kenneth]

No and yes.  You can use this option to enable offscreen rendering on the server that is hardware accelerated.  I often use it on our cluster to run multiple processes on the same node without worrying about rendering buffers overriding each other.  However, the server processes will still pop open a window on the server nodes, they will just remain blank.  So, if you want to use this option to circumvent having an X host or preventing an annoying window pop up, this option will not help.

-Ken


On 10/14/09 7:11 AM, "Paul Melis" <paul.melis at sara.nl> wrote:

Hello,

pvserver --help reports:

"--use-offscreen-rendering  Render offscreen on the satellite processes.
This option only works with software rendering or mangled mesa on Unix."

Is this true? Is there no way to get offscreen hardware-accelerated
rendering in Paraview other than compiling with Mangled Mesa? Or is the
help text bogus?

Regards
Paul
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