From: "José Manuel Nunes" <Jose.deAbreuNunes@anthro.unige.ch>
To: caml list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Graphics without open_graph?
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 17:19:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1020352775.484.54.camel@sophnee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020502143627.A569@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de>
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 14:36, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> ...
> > I guess that you want to use drawing functions (lines, circles...)
> > available inside Graphics, without opening the graphic window, and
> > obtain results as some graphic file format.
> >
> > If my guess is correct, unfortunatelly, the drawing function of the
> > Graphics library highly depends on those of the window system (X on
> > Unix, for example). Using these functions without windowing systems is
> > impossible at this moment.
>
>...
> One way out would be a virtual X11 server that is not connected to any
> hardware device but has a "screen" that only exists in memory (e.g.
> http://www.xfree.org/4.2.0/Xvfb.1.html). A quick test shows that it really
> works:
>
Thanks a lot!
There is even a convenient script xvfb-run (at least on debian) that
allows a command to be run inside such a X virtual server.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-02 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-02 9:46 José Manuel Nunes
2002-05-02 10:44 ` Jun P.FURUSE
2002-05-02 12:36 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2002-05-02 15:19 ` José Manuel Nunes [this message]
2002-05-02 22:13 ` Oliver Bandel
2002-05-12 20:50 ` Pierre Weis
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