On 12/12/2014 03:43 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: > This is a medium-bizarre question, but an answer would be of great help > to me. I've actually asked it on the Scilab list, but if there's not a > Scilab answer to it, I'd be happy with a Linux one: > > I have some papers that I maintain on my web site, for example: > http://wescottdesign.com/articles/Sampling/sampling.pdf. > > These are authored in lyx, with some figures generated with Scilab. The > site is archived as software, and built using a makefile, including the > pdf files. Rather than keeping the figures as generated graphics files, > I keep the Scilab files and generate the figures as needed. > > To generate a figure, make runs its generating script from a shell, e.g. > > scilab -nw -nb -e > "execstr(['errcatch(-1,''kill'')';'scf';'exec(''motor-PD-friction.sce'');';'quit'])" > > Scilab thinks that it's an interactive environment, so when the script > makes a figure, Scilab opens the window on top of whatever is running, > draws it, then closes it. Since I have several papers on the site (and > its growing), this means that I can't leave the make running in the > background and get work done, because I'm constantly getting windows > created in my face. > > It's kind of like trying to read in the same room as a cat, except that > Scilab figures are not warm and fuzzy, and they do not purr. > > Scilab does have a "don't use graphics" mode, but if you try to make a > graph in that mode it bombs. > > Is there some way of running a command from a shell that gives the > command a working X environment (so that it can make the figure), but > hides that environment from me (so that I can keep designing a circuit, > answering my mail, or whatever it is that engineers do)? > > Thanks in advance. >
Just a popped into my head idea, but could you run it in a different workspace? -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
