[Gimp-developer] Re: another Perl-Server question

[Shlomi Fish]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Brian Richardson wrote:

 well, I have things working, but it's a bit of a hack.
 
 What I really want to do is launch Perl-Server, running as user nobody,
 from my init scripts (I use the Perl-Server extensively in my CGI
 development). So, I put together a setuid wrapper to launch the gimp,
 but I don't see any way of detaching the gimp process from the
 controlling terminal so that I can background it without terminating the
 gimp. Any suggestions, or is this a feature which may be added at a
 later date? ;)


Try VNC:

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

It can keep an entire X-server session running at the background of the
computer. You'll need to set the DISPLAY env-var of your CGI scripts in
accordance with it, but it should work.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish
 
 right now I have to leave the setuid wrapper as the last item in my
 rc.local and leave the rc.local script running.
 
 Brian
 
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[Gimp-developer] Re: another Perl-Server question

[Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-07-25 at 1140.55 +0300):
  but I don't see any way of detaching the gimp process from the
  controlling terminal so that I can background it without terminating the
  gimp. Any suggestions, or is this a feature which may be added at a
  later date? ;)

With control terminal you mean X server or a text console? For text
console you can use screen, I guess.

 Try VNC:
 http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

The traditional way is to use Xvfb, it comes with X (maybe in a
accessory package, it varies with distros). It is a dumb X server for
testing or background usage.

VNC also comes with some distros, but it usage is more for roaming or
serving X to machines that do not have X (aka MS Windows when you do
not want to pay more software).

In both cases, gimp -i saves the creation of interface for faster load
and probably faster work due not doing renderings to monitor (you
still need some kind of X so the libs can work).

GSR
 
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