Re: no X thankyou!!

[Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero]

>> IIRC there is a X server that fakes that. It works as normal X, but never
>> shows anything anywhere. Xvfb maybe? And of course, VNC.
>..but this would stop normal X running on the machine - need a solution
>that allows the script to run every hour - whether I'm logged in, or not.

Why would X stop? I do not understand the problem. I have machines running 3
normal X sessions (one in its video card, two remote) plus a VNC X session.
And for fun I luanched 3 X one day (weird thing, I know, but the only way to
test a thing is trying it, like "how many xterminals can I open?").

GSR
 

Re: no X thankyou!!

[Alan Buxey]

hi,

thanks to the private responses (you know who you are)

espcially the lead to:

http://www.rru.com/~meo/gimp/faq-user.html#noX

I can run the virtual screen as well as normal X. in fact, the batch job
starts the virtual, runs gimp, then kills the virtual. I might make the
virtual just start at bootup in future - but right now, the overheads
arent high! 8-)

alan

Re: no X thankyou!!

[Alan Buxey]

hi,

> IIRC there is a X server that fakes that. It works as normal X, but never
> shows anything anywhere. Xvfb maybe? And of course, VNC.

..but this would stop normal X running on the machine - need a solution
that allows the script to run every hour - whether I'm logged in, or not.

alan

Re: no X thankyou!!

[Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero]

>so, how do i override this?? right now I'm having to xhost (servername)
>and keep X running...i want to get this all running from console..i see no
>reason for X to be needed... any helpers out there?

IIRC there is a X server that fakes that. It works as normal X, but never
shows anything anywhere. Xvfb maybe? And of course, VNC.

GSR
 

no X thankyou!!

[Alan Buxey]

hi,

I'm trying to run Gimp as a batch processbut even with the no
interface option on the command line, GTK wants to have access to the X
display (even though it opens nothing on there!)

so, how do i override this?? right now I'm having to xhost (servername)
and keep X running...i want to get this all running from console..i see no
reason for X to be needed... any helpers out there?

alan