[Matplotlib-users] Generating and saving figures without actually displaying them

2007-05-18 Thread kaushik.ghose
Hello, I want to run a python program on a remote machine via ssh. It generates figures and saves them to files. I don't need/want to see the figures as they are being generated and saved. When I do this on the remote machine (which is running linux) I get a display error _tkinter.TclError:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Generating and saving figures without actually displaying them

2007-05-18 Thread Christopher Barker
Darren Dale wrote: On Friday 18 May 2007 12:39:29 pm kaushik.ghose wrote: Is there a way to disable drawing on the device and just have 'virtual' drawing to a file? Try using the agg backend Which you can do by either: * changing the default backend in .matplotlibrc or * Putting: