You can create a virtual X server using Xvfb to stop python complaining. I
haven't tried it out myself but it should work. Maybe someone else can
suggest a better solution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb

Sameer

On 18 August 2014 22:43, Mark S. Bentley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have some pygwy scripts for that work very well on my desktop (mainly
> creating gwy files). I want to move this operation to a headless linux
> server, but python crashes on import with the error:
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> Does anyone know if I can force Gwyddion to work in this environment? At
> the moment I'm only creating files, but later I would also like to
> perform some batch operations on the images (plane level etc.). Can I
> use off-screen rendering?
>
> Any hints gratefully accepted!
>
> Thanks, Mark
>
>
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