[info-performer] Re: Performer app with no display

From: Stuart Levy (slevy++at++ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Date: 03/20/2003 07:39:05

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On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 at 13:29 EST John Kelso wrote:
>
> A good suggestion, but the problem is that I need to use Performer classes
> and methods to load and analyse model files, but I don't need/want to open any
> displays. I can't use any of the Performer classes unless I call pfInit,
> which is where it hangs.
>
> Can anyone out there tell me if it possible to write a "non-display"
> Performer program, and if so, how to do it?

Could you live with a no-visible-X-server display? You could use
the X virtual frame buffer (man Xvfb) to run a display server that
existed only in memory, using no graphics hardware, and set the
performer app's DISPLAY to refer to it. Would that do?

   Stuart Levy

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