[vtk-developers] Running VTK Application Headless?

Daniel Haehn haehn at bwh.harvard.edu
Tue Feb 22 17:50:58 EST 2011


Hi dave,

I used the fb before and sometimes there were stability issues. 
Is there another way without any display dependencies?

Daniel

David Partyka <david.partyka at kitware.com> wrote:

>You could use Xvfb
>
>export DISPLAY=:100.0
>killall Xvfb
>Xvfb :100 -screen 0 1600x1200x24 &
># Run your program here...
>killall Xvfb
>
>On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Daniel Haehn <haehn at bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi VTK developers,
>>
>> is it possible to run a VTK+QT application without a configured X DISPLAY?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Daniel
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