Re: [Matplotlib-users] Generating and saving figures without actually displaying them

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Friday 18 May 2007 12:39:29 pm kaushik.ghose wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to run a python program on a remote machine via ssh. It generates
> figures and saves them to files. I don't need/want to see the figures as
> they are being generated and saved.
>
> When I do this on the remote machine (which is running linux) I get a
> display error
>
> _tkinter.TclError: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
>
> Is there a way to disable drawing on the device and just have 'virtual'
> drawing to a file?

Try using the agg backend