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Re: Faking X Display for IDL Bridge [message #72428 is a reply to message #72427]

Mon, 13 September 2010 08:05

Foldy Lajos
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Registered: October 2001

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On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Haje Korth wrote:

> Hi,
> I just had this great idea of forking IDL jobs on my 16-CPU server
> using the IDL to IDL Bridge. The code runs great from the command line
> but using a UNIX cron job I get the error message "IDL_IDLBridge:
> Unable to establish X Connection." To late did I understand the the
> help that reads:
>
> "Warning: On UNIX systems, the IDL_IDLBridge requires that the DISPLAY
> environment variable be set to a valid X Windows display. If no
> display is available, execution of the IDL_IDLBridge will halt, with
> error messages that include:IDL_IDLBridge: Unable to establish X
> Connection."
>
> The requirement for an X display seems silly, as my code does not
> display anything. Is there a way to fake the existence of an X window?
> Or did I just wasted my time coding this feature?
>
> Haje

vncserver is your friend.

regards,
Lajos

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		Re: Faking X Display for IDL Bridge By: Haje Korth on Tue, 14 September 2010 07:18
		Re: Faking X Display for IDL Bridge By: wita on Tue, 14 September 2010 00:35
		Re: Faking X Display for IDL Bridge By: Haje Korth on Mon, 13 September 2010 10:52
		Re: Faking X Display for IDL Bridge By: Foldy Lajos on Mon, 13 September 2010 08:29
		Re: Faking X Display for IDL Bridge By: Haje Korth on Mon, 13 September 2010 08:13
		Re: Faking X Display for IDL Bridge By: Haje Korth on Mon, 13 September 2010 08:06
		Re: Faking X Display for IDL Bridge By: Foldy Lajos on Mon, 13 September 2010 08:05
		Re: Faking X Display for IDL Bridge By: jeffnettles4870 on Mon, 13 September 2010 07:39

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