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Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:04:29 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> I would need access to the server, yes. I think that if Xvnc were installed on
> the server, LDView could connect to that, and everything would then be happy.
> (Xvnc is an X Server that's designed to be connected to remotely via vnc. From
> LDView's point of view, there would then be an X server, but Xvnc doesn't use a
> local screen at all, so the web server is still happy.)
I just did a quick check on my own Linux box (a virtual machine, actually) with
xvfb (X Virtual Frame Buffer), and that worked fine with LDView. Since xvfb is
a standard part of the X distribution, it should be easy to install on most
major *nix distributions. Installation of xvfb might have to be done by an
admin, though.
--Travis
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 | | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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| (...) Yeah we experimented with xvfb many years ago. (URL) was some weirdness with the aspect ratio that was probably caused by a bug in ldglite at the time. And there were some questions about large image sizes, but it should be a viable solution (...) (17 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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| (...) I would need access to the server, yes. I think that if Xvnc were installed on the server, LDView could connect to that, and everything would then be happy. (Xvnc is an X Server that's designed to be connected to remotely via vnc. From (...) (17 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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