[GRASSLIST:2708] Re: nviz Run and Save

[Glynn Clements]

Aldo Clerici wrote:

> I'm having some trouble with the Run and Save command of The Keyframe
> Animation panel in nviz (GRASS5.3 CVS-snapshot).
> The frame for saving the animation on disk contains a button named
> Off-screen. If this is not activated (OFF) the image sequence is correctly
> saved, but if this button is ON, pressing OK everything disappear and nviz
> exit returning to the GRASS prompt.
> Is this a bug or there something wrong in my installation ? The Off-screen
> option shouldn't simply allow to save the frames without a screen animation
> ?

It's probably a bug. There are a number of issues with the off-screen
rendering code; in particular, it uses certain GLX extensions (e.g. 
pbuffers) without checking whether the X server supports them.

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>