[Paraview] Is there any point to compiling with MPI but without offscreen rendering?

Kevin H. Hobbs hobbsk at ohio.edu
Mon Oct 8 14:00:39 EDT 2012


On 10/08/2012 01:21 PM, Cook, Rich wrote:
> 
> I'm also personally unsure about where there is a switch for
> "--use-offscreen-rendering."  If I compile with OSMesa, I'm always
> going to want that, right?

I think that depending on how you built OSMesa it's all you _can_ do.

>  And if OpenGL, I'm always going to
> disable that, right?  Why is there a command line switch for that?
> 

You can render "off screen" with X and graphics hardware but without the
render window actually showing up on screen.

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