Re: [mesa-users] remote pgplot

[Martin C. <mar...@gm...>]

ahh the win_flags.. forgot about those.
I can just set them to false, then everything works the way I want it to.

thanks so much guys.

Martin

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Robert Farmer <rjf...@as...> wrote:

> When i run things on a cluster i usually get this error message (probably
> from leaving the win_flags=.true.)
>
> PGPLOT /xw: cannot connect to X server []
> PGPLOT /xw: cannot connect to X server []
>
> but file saving still runs fine, I think as along as X is running you'll
> be okay. This is without me doing anything special, though maybe the
> sysadmins configured things differently.
>
> Rob
>
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:55 PM, RICHARD H D TOWNSEND <
> tow...@as...> wrote:
>
>> I wonder if pgplot will still try to create a remote X session when you
>> start up, even if no windows are opened.
>>
>> If this occurs, you can make the X session local to the (remote) server
>> by setting the DISPLAY environment variable to localhost:0.0
>>
>> But you’ll need appropriate permissions to access the X server, and may
>> have to play with xhost and/or .Xauthority files. It’s a bit messy.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> > On Mar 17, 2017, at 3:51 PM, Robert Farmer <rjf...@as...> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi
>> > All the pgplots have the option to save a png with the _file_ flags,
>> for instance for the abundance plots:
>> >
>> >          Abundance_file_flag = .true.
>> >          Abundance_file_dir = 'png'
>> >          Abundance_file_prefix = 'abund_'
>> >          Abundance_file_interval = 5 ! output when
>> mod(model_number,Abundance_file_interval)==0
>> >
>> > writes an abundance plot to file every 5 steps to a folder called png
>> >
>> > The options
>> >
>> >          file_device = 'png'
>> >          file_extension = 'png'
>> >
>> > can be used to output either png or ps (for postscript files).
>> >
>> > Rob
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Martin C. <mar...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm running MESA on a remote server. I'd like to run PGPLOT so I can
>> output png files so that I can later make videos from them.
>> >
>> > I can use
>> > ssh -Y ...
>> > but that forces me to stream the plots to my local computer which I
>> don't want.
>> > So how can I run PGLOT remotely only.
>> > Any tips?
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> >
>> > Martin
>> > --
>> > Martin C.
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