Re: GTK+ Modules and GDK
- From: Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>
- To: gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: GTK+ Modules and GDK
- Date: 20 Jun 2002 12:09:43 +0100
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 17:44, Joel Becker wrote:
> > This is reminiscent of the situation with 'headless Java' which was a
> > major PITA for a long time. Lots of folks wanted to use Java apps
> > server-side, conversion utilities, etc. but couldn't unless there was a
> > valid DISPLAY. The workaround is usually Xvfb, to create a virtual
> > display. However that may conflict with our accessibility support.
>
> But these Java apps were text-only. I can certainly understand
> how a text-only app (say, server-side something or other) would not
> require a display. I saw this with Java way back when as well, and I
> agree it was silly. But it is one thing to say "Java shouldn't require
> a display." and quite another to say "AWT and Swing shouldn't require a
> display." I agree with the former, I can't see the latter.
Totally OT, but server-side Java code only requires a $DISPLAY if the
code was using java.awt.Image objects, i.e. doing image manipulation.
Ross
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