[vtk-developers] vtkWindowToImageFilter and Remote Desktop

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Hi,

Remote desktop swap the video card driver hence the issue you are seeing.
But if you use VNC instead, you should be good.

Seb


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Smith, Jacob <J.Smith at questintegrity.com>
wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>  I've been trying to use the vtkWindowToImageFilter to output images of
> our 2D views.  I have been, for the most part, pretty successful.  But when
> I continued my development today from home, using Remote Desktop to access
> my workstation, the image being output with the vtkPNGWriter or jpeg writer
> (either one) does not work as expected.  To specify the image size, I
> change the size of the RenderWindow to the dimensions I want.  When not
> using Remote Desktop, this correctly changes the size of the image and only
> consists of what is in the vtk window.  But using Remote Desktop causes the
> output image to come out with the new size, but consist of all the forms
> around the vtk window as well.  The vtk window was not scaled along with
> the new RenderWindow size.  It is basically just taking a screenshot and
> including UI elements I don't expect to see.
>
>  Is there anything that can be done to improve the performance of this
> procedure when running through Remote Desktop?  What are the issues that
> I'm running into?  Does it have something to do with the fact that the
> graphics and display settings I'm used to on my workstation are not
> available to me when using Remote Desktop?
>
>  Thanks in advance!
>
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