Another option, you can use your window manager to automatically move the windows to a different workspace and they won't get in your way. If you have compiz enabled, then you can use the Place Windows plugin. Below is a script that I use to get those vtk windows out of my way. The script automates settings that you can access in compiz config settings manager gui.<br>
<br>Pat<br><br><br>#!/bin/bash<br><br>workspace=4<br>match_rule="class=Paraview|class=vtk"<br><br>key="/apps/compiz/plugins/place/screen0/options"<br><br>if [ "$1" == "on" ]<br>then<br>
echo "enabling place windows"<br> gconftool-2 --set "$key/viewport_matches" --type list --list-type string "[$match_rule]"<br> gconftool-2 --set "$key/viewport_x_values" --type list --list-type int "[$workspace]"<br>
gconftool-2 --set "$key/viewport_y_values" --type list --list-type int "[1]"<br>elif [ "$1" == "off" ]<br>then<br> echo "disabling place windows"<br> gconftool-2 --set "$key/viewport_matches" --type list --list-type string "[]"<br>
gconftool-2 --set "$key/viewport_x_values" --type list --list-type int "[]"<br> gconftool-2 --set "$key/viewport_y_values" --type list --list-type int "[]"<br>else<br> echo "Usage: $0 [on|off]"<br>
exit 1<br>fi<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Andy Bauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy.bauer@kitware.com">andy.bauer@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
As far as I know, using mesa and offscreen rendering is the only way to do that. Information on that is available at <a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Parallel_Rendering#Offscreen_Software_Rendering_via_OSMesa" target="_blank">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Parallel_Rendering#Offscreen_Software_Rendering_via_OSMesa</a><br>
<br>Andy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Rick Muller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpmuller@gmail.com" target="_blank">rpmuller@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">I'm currently doing some rendering on a large collection of exodus files using pvpython. I would like for this rendering to be done in the background. However, when I call WriteImage(filename), paraview pops up an X-window, and renders to the screen while saving the image. Is there any way to keep the window from showing up?<br>
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