[pygtk] running gtk from crontab

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:26:00PM +0200, Nikos Kouremenos wrote:
>On 12/7/05, Loris Caren <loris at caren.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Does anybody know if it is possible to run (py)gtk scripts that don't
>> need a GUI from crontab or from a non X11 terminal? This might seem a
>> daft requirement, but I'm using the pygtk image processing
>> capabilities to do some batch processing for images that I don't need
>> to display.
>
>if you import gtk in a non X11 terminal it raises

Could xvfb be a solution. It's used quite a bit in the Java community.

 http://www.javasource.org/GifServlet/linux.html

/M

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