[Paraview] Force remote rendering on pvserver

Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
Mon Jan 7 10:47:55 EST 2013


Is your ParaView build with OSMesa support
(http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/ParaView_And_Mesa_3D)? If not, then
ParaView needs access to the X display. To use ParaView without X
trying rebuilding ParaView with OSmesa support as described on the
Wiki page.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Kit Chambers <kit.chambers.kc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a remote server which I can connect paraview to, however, it when I
> do so it says "Display not accessible on server side. Remote rendering
> disabled."
>
> I have tried a couple of basic/naive things like using
>> pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering
>> pvserver - display localhost:0
>
> But to no effect so far. Can anyone help me with with settings etc I should
> be playing with.
>
> Kit
>
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