[Paraview] Render windows when running parallel pvserver on localhost

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

One option is to compile with OSMesa and then use
--use-offscreen-rendering command line option for the pvserver.

http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server talks about
how to compile with OSMesa

Utkarsh

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Matthew Cragun <mcragun at totalsim.us> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm wondering if there are any ways to start pvserver in parallel on
> localhost without the rendering windows popping up on my screen.  I
> understand the render windows need to be created for each of the processors,
> but is there a way to send them somewhere else or to a background so they
> won't pop up everytime the screen refreshes?  Right now, I can't really work
> with it because the windows keep popping up.
>
> Currently I'm running paraview 3.6.2 on Linux RHEL5.  My command to start
> pvserver is really simple at the moment.  It's just: mpirun -np 4
> /nfs/dana/.../bin/pvserver
> Thanks,
> --
> Matt Cragun
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