[vtkusers] vtk without DISPLAY

[David Gobbi]

Hi Patrick,

I think you have missed the point.  Erik most likely wants to either
run batch jobs on a remote machine without requiring an X connection
back to his own machine, or he want to be able to nohup the vtk process so
that he can log out of his machine without killing the batch job.

As far as I know, neither of these are possible with the tcl vtk 
executable because the vtk executable requires an X connection.
There are ways to work around this, but I can't think of any
trivial ways to do so.

 - David

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Patrick Lowry wrote:

> David:
> 
> It is unclear to me what tcl has to do with evoking vtk without a DISPLAY
> device.  I run vtk filters with tcl all the time where I only show a small
> top level window that tell me when the process is finished.  No window has
> to be shown at all if desired.
> 
> Patrick Lowry
> 
> At 03:44 PM 2/13/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Erik Sobel wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a command line option to vtk to envoke it without a DISPLAY
> device 
> >> - for batch filtering etc.
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Erik
> >
> >Sure, just don't use tcl.  This is no problem for VTK programs written
> >in Python or C++ (and probably also true for Java).
> >
> > - David