On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:37:30 +0000, dsimcha wrote: > == Quote from Lars T. Kyllingstad ([email protected])'s article >> Even if you SSH into it, you can still run GUI apps remotely using X >> forwarding. But if you're saying that the machine doesn't have X >> installed at all (do those still exist?), I have no suggestions. -Lars > > That, or you want to run the job as a batch job via nohup and have your > plots appear in some directory the next day.
Ah, I see. I guess the solution which would be most flexible in the long run would be to make the GUI abstraction "abstract enough" that it isn't limited to GUIs -- sort of like gnuplot does with its notion of 'terminals'. Then backends could be created for writing to various file formats. But that's probably quite a lot of work. I started using Plot2Kill "for real" at work today, BTW, and it works very well. Now, if someone made a CAS library for D, I would never again have to reach for any tool other than vim and dmd... ;) -Lars
