Re: using pygtk to create plots on a server w/ no DISPLAY

On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 11:34, John Hunter wrote:
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> Typically when I log in to the server from a local machine w/o X, eg a
> win32 machine over putty, and try to import gtk, I get the exception
> "RuntimeError: could not open display".  I'm wondering if there is
> anyway to use gtk in display-less mode.
> 
> Thanks, 
> John Hunter

hi john,

there are probably a bunch of ways you could do this. the easiest I can
think of is to check the value of the DISPLAY environment variable,
which is *always* set if the user has a 'head' on their workstation that
supports the x-windows protocol(s).

hmm.. perhaps this is a change that will need to be made in the pygtk
package itself.

it's just an idea.. YMMV, etc.

regards,
J
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