On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 09:44:16AM -0800, Galen Seitz wrote: > On 12/12/14 15:43, Tim Wescott wrote: > > 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)? > > I haven't used it myself, but it sounds like xvfb is what you need. > > <http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.6/doc/man/man1/Xvfb.1.xhtml>
That's a useful tool, and a better solution than using Xnest (no space consumed on your display at all). Invocation is easy: Xvfb :10 DISPLAY=:10 make my_web_site -- Paul _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
