No and yes. You can use this option to enable offscreen rendering on the server that is hardware accelerated. I often use it on our cluster to run multiple processes on the same node without worrying about rendering buffers overriding each other. However, the server processes will still pop open a window on the server nodes, they will just remain blank. So, if you want to use this option to circumvent having an X host or preventing an annoying window pop up, this option will not help.
-Ken On 10/14/09 7:11 AM, "Paul Melis" <[email protected]> wrote: Hello, pvserver --help reports: "--use-offscreen-rendering Render offscreen on the satellite processes. This option only works with software rendering or mangled mesa on Unix." Is this true? Is there no way to get offscreen hardware-accelerated rendering in Paraview other than compiling with Mangled Mesa? Or is the help text bogus? Regards Paul _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview **** Kenneth Moreland *** Sandia National Laboratories *********** *** *** *** email: [email protected] ** *** ** phone: (505) 844-8919 *** web: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~kmorel
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