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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