[vtk-developers] Running VTK Application Headless?

[Daniel Haehn]

Ah this looks better but I don't want to re-configure the application for doing this :) Is there a way?

Thx,
Daniel

On Feb 22, 2011, at 6:23 PM, David Partyka wrote:

> Do you need to render anything? You could turn off VTK_USE_RENDERING and turn off VTK_USE_X11.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Daniel Haehn <haehn at bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 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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