[gl2ps] Offscreen-rendering with gl2ps?

[garnier]

In Geant4, we already use offscreen rendering with gl2ps to produce « tests snapshots » and compare them to references files.
For that we use X11 server « xvfb » : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb

In order to use it with your application :

Xvfb :99 -screen 0 1024x768x24 -nolisten tcp 2>&1
export DISPLAY=:99
`run_your_app`
`kill -9 your_Xvfb_process`

That’s it :)

Cheers, 
Laurent



> Le 13 févr. 2015 à 17:33, Andreas Weber <octave at tech-chat.de> a écrit :
> 
> Am 13.02.2015 um 16:26 schrieb Christophe Geuzaine:
>> 
>>> On 05 Dec 2014, at 19:33, Andreas Weber <octave at tech-chat.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear users and maintainers of gl2ps,
>>> 
>>> GNU Octave with the FLTK graphics_toolkit uses gl2ps to generate prints.
>>> This works really fine but we have a long standing bugreport that Octave
>>> isn't able to produce print without a visible figure
>>> (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=33180)
>>> 
>>> Is it possible or does some of you have experience with
>>> offscreen-rendering and gl2ps? If possible it would be really great to
>>> use gl2ps even without a DSIPLAY (for example within a remote session
>>> via ssh).
>>> The solution should be crossplatform GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOS capable.
>>> 
>> 
>> I have no experience with this; but I would definitely be interested to know if it's possible!
> 
> Yes, it's definitely possible. The next Octave 4.0 release will use
> OSMesa and gl2ps for offscreen rendering.
> 
> If you want I can create a minimalistic example with OSMesa and gl2ps
> for GNU/Linux.
> 
> -- Andy
> 
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