[Paraview] Does running Catalyst require osmesa?

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

OSMesa is only needed if your simulation run environment doesn't have
access to an X server. X is needed to create an OpenGL context.
Without X, OSMesa is one of the ways to create that OpenGL context
necessary for rendering.

Utkarsh

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Christopher Neal
<chrisneal at snumerics.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I’m playing around with different builds of ParaView(all with catalyst
> enabled). I’m not using a Catalyst edition because of some build issues that
> I was having with cmake. One thing that I wanted to understand is:  If I
> compile a version of ParaView with Catalyst enabled, but GUI disabled, will
> I still be able to run a Catalyst example that outputs images?
>
> Or would I need to figure out how to compile ParaView with OSMESA?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Chris Neal
>
>
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