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Re: IDL without X on Linux [message #42876 is a reply to message #42875]

Thu, 03 March 2005 06:46

Benjamin Hornberger is currently offline

Benjamin Hornberger
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David Fanning wrote:
> Benjamin Hornberger writes:
>
>
>> can I start IDL on Linux without an X server available? I frequently run
>> IDL on a Linux machine remotely, logged on from a Windows machine. If
>> the Windows machine doesn't run an X server at that moment, IDL won't
>> start ("X connection to localhost:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server
>> shutdown)").
>>

>
> Have you tried setting the graphics output device to NULL?
>
> Set_Plot, 'NULL'

That helped! Actually, I realized it was enough to take the device
commands out of the startup file. Now I only need a way to start with
different startup files. I guess I'll have to use bash scripts for that...

Thanks,
Benjamin

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		Re: IDL without X on Linux By: David Fanning on Thu, 03 March 2005 10:10
		Re: IDL without X on Linux By: Benjamin Hornberger on Thu, 03 March 2005 10:06
		Re: IDL without X on Linux By: David Fanning on Thu, 03 March 2005 10:01
		Re: IDL without X on Linux By: Benjamin Hornberger on Thu, 03 March 2005 09:45
		Re: IDL without X on Linux By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 03 March 2005 09:27
		Re: IDL without X on Linux By: Liam Gumley on Thu, 03 March 2005 08:20
		Re: IDL without X on Linux By: Benjamin Hornberger on Thu, 03 March 2005 06:46
		Re: IDL without X on Linux By: David Fanning on Thu, 03 March 2005 06:32
		Re: IDL without X on Linux By: Ken Mankoff on Fri, 04 March 2005 06:30

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