Re: Using dia for batch processing

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 04 Feb 2002, Ville Lindfors wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Is it possible to use dia without X display. Currently I get Gtk warnings
> and dia exits.
>
> This may sound odd question, but I'm using dia to build documentation for
> a large project. Builds are run by cron, and thus there is no X display
> available.
>
> I'm already using the --nosplash option but with no help.

Gtk is rather heavily incorporated in Dia, I think it'd be rather difficult
to make Dia run without Gtk, and thus X.  However, I know there is a
program that will fake an X server, so you can run X programs without X.
Don't remember the name offhand.

-Lars

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