Re: Not meant to be flame bait, but...

From: <alcesteatxmissiondot_at_com.or.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:04:13 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <b7kggd$i9n$1@terabinaries.xmission.com>

> Our solution was to run Xvfb (a virtual X server) on the server
> running 9IAS - this is enough for forms to work (apparently it just
> needs the virtual server so that it can use some of the standard X
> apps to manipulate images/fonts etc). With this solution, we did also
> need to run a window manager to get it to work (which I found odd -
> but it works). We just run twm for this.

Specifically, (I looked it up cause this made me mad) the problem is that the code to generate images requires a colormap which is obtained via a call to the X server. This is because X supports remote clients with varying colormaps. So when the tools generate images and graphs with the java libraries, they need somewhere to look. Xvfb does the trick quite well, and is really a necessity. Supposedly, version 1.4 of java has handled this.

Jer Smith Received on Wed Apr 16 2003 - 16:04:13 CDT