[PLUG] Run graphics apps from the command line, but suppress graphics.

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 03:43:43PM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote:
> This is a medium-bizarre question, but an answer would be of great help
> to me.  I've actually asked it on the Scilab list, but if there's not a
> Scilab answer to it, I'd be happy with a Linux one:
> 
> I have some papers that I maintain on my web site, for example:
> http://wescottdesign.com/articles/Sampling/sampling.pdf.
> [snip]
> Is there some way of running a command from a shell that gives the
> command a working X environment (so that it can make the figure), but
> hides that environment from me (so that I can keep designing a circuit,
> answering my mail, or whatever it is that engineers do)?
 
Does your desktop environment support multiple virtual desktops?
Can you direct it to use of them while you work in another?


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