[Paraview] Disabling OpenGL window pop-up

Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
Tue Nov 23 08:14:24 EST 2010


To be honest, I am not too sure if there would be any issues with the
patch. Hopefully, someone with more knowledge of X and OpenGL can
comment.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Adriano Gagliardi <agagliardi at ara.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Bastian,
>
> Have you encountered any problems with using the supplied patch (if you are
> using it, that is)? It's been almost a year since I applied it and we have
> been using it here without any obvious problems that could be attributed to
> it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adriano
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org]
> On Behalf Of BastiL2001
> Sent: 20 November 2010 15:59
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> Subject: [Paraview] Disabling OpenGL window pop-up
>
> Dear Utkarsh,
>
> I am just wondering what disanvantages the disabling of the window popup
> has?
> Since it still is in the current git code I guess the code that is commended
> by this fix has some use?
>
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
> Bastian
>
>
> Utkarsh,
>
> I've now been able to test out the new patch and it is working fine. To be
> honest, this is all that is required as it removes the annoyance of having
> numerous pop-up windows cluttering your desktop anytime you try to run
> ParaView in parallel.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Adriano
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
> <http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview>]
>
> Sent: 07 December 2009 18:01
> To: agagliardi at ara.co.uk
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> Cc: ParaView
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Disabling OpenGL window pop-up
>
> I believe you are talking about the server-side render window that pops up.
>
> I am attaching a experimental patch to get you started. It works only on
> Linux. All I am doing it not mapping the window. Now when you run server
> with offscreen:
>
> pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering
>
> and connect to it from ParaView client, you should no longer see any
> server-side windows when remote rendering.
>
> Of course the patch is more of a hack, but it should give you a starting
> point.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Adriano Gagliardi <agagliardi at ara.co.uk
> <http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview>>
> wrote:
>>/
> />/ Does anyone know how to disable the pop-up window for opengl
> />/ rendering? If it isn't possible via the interactive interface, could
> />/ someone give me pointers as to where in the source code this is
> />/ called? It's something I'd really like to get rid of without having to
> use
> /software-based rendering.
>>/
> />/ Cheers,
> />/
> />/ Adriano
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