Hi Chris, It sounds like you didn't properly build ParaView with offscreen rendering. Can you share your CMakeCache.txt from your build? I'm guessing VTK_USE_X, VTK_USE_OFFSCREEN or some other thing didn't get set properly.
Andy On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Christopher Neal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I have compiled a version of ParaView with osMesa enabled. The version is > 5.1.2 for ParaView. I’m running the CxxFullExample Catalyst example that is > located in ParaView/Examples/Catalyst. > > *Operating system info* > > lsb_release –a: > LSB Version: n/a > > Distributor ID: openSUSE project > > Description: openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64) > > Release: 13.2 > > Codename: Harlequin > > > > I have added 1 additional script to the Catalyst example by using the > “CoProcessing” button in ParaView to generate a Catalyst script that just > exports a .png of an isometric view of the geometry. When I run the > example, the operating system seems to freeze up completely in my login > session i.e. windows can not be clicked, nothing at all can be done with > the exception of moving the mouse around on the screen. It stays frozen > like this for about 2 minutes before a window pops up that says > “Paraview(batch)”. In the window is the isometric view and the window > updates to show the geometry at every timestep that the example outputs an > image at. The Catalyst script does seem to execute fine and outputs image > files for each frame that I requested, but it is soooo slow for some reason. > > Is this the expected behavior of running Catalyst with an osMesa build? I > thought that ‘os’ stood for ‘off-screen’, which I interpreted as there > being no screen display component to the rendering. Have I done something > wrong with compiling ParaView with osMesa? Is Catalyst supposed to > completely lock up the session until a window pops up? > > I would love to hear from other users of Catalyst to hear about the > experiences of running Catalyst. > > > Thank you, > > Chris Neal > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview > >
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