[scilab-Users] RE : [scilab-Users] Plotting to file wihtout graphical window

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le vendredi 11 février 2011 à 11:00 +0100, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit :
> Le 11/02/2011 09:42, Calmon Martin a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Figures can be used in buffer mode... It's ruled by the pixmap property: i.e.for a figure f, the figure is only in memory if f.pixmap="on". In this way, batch can be run in the background without interfering with other work.
> >
> > And if you need to check what is on the figure: show_pixmap().
> OK, thanks for this information, I didn't know that.
> But I think it only solves part of the problem as I still need to create 
> at least one graphic window.
> Using pixmap='on', I can easily reuse the same window for all my plots 
> and I think I can get things faster.
> But I cannot do batch plotting on a station without X server...
Actually, you can with Xvfb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb
which is packaged in almost (all ?) Linux distributions.

Sylvestre