Re: [Matplotlib-users] RuntimeError: could not open display

[Rich D. <dr...@in...>]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Darren Dale wrote:

> What happens if you run the script on a windows machine, no ssh?

I don't have any Windows machines to test on :)

Based on what John said, I'd guess that the backend would be defaulted to 
some appropriate Windows backend, and things would work.  It was only this 
particular combination of ssh'ing in to an X based system that failed from 
Windows.

That said, since my script never actually tried to do some display, it
would be spiffy if matplotlib postponed any X oriented stuff that accesses
the display until the user actually requests a show().  That way, if the
script just does a savefig(.ps) at the end as mine did, things would Just
Work.

Rich