[Vis5d-users] wpdy and offscreen switches

FYI, I had the same problem as David Nunes (See below attachment) using
Vis5D 5.1 running on a Linux PC where the remote display was set to an
IBM workstation running AIX 4.3.  

Also, I use Vis5D with tcl scripts to produce automated products for our
web site.  I always have to have my display open for the scripts to
work, which is a little irritating when I am in the middle of working on
something and Vis5D kicks off. I tried using the -offscreen switch, but
for some reason some of the custom color tables I use end up reversed in
the final GIF image created in this manner.  I thought it had something
to do with the fact that in this mode Vis5D writes the file in PPM
format and calls convert, but when I manually save an image in PPM
format during an interactive session and call convert myself
after-the-fact, the problem doesn't occur.  Any ideas?

Cheers,

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David Nunes wrote:
> 
> I am trying to use the -wdpy option with Vis5d 5.2 under AIX 4.3. It does
> not seem to work for me, however. Below is what I am trying and what I get.
> ********************
> met2_nunesd% vis5d -wdpy met3:0.0 MM.v5d
> Cache size: 280 grids
> X Error of failed request: BadCursor (invalid Cursor parameter)
>    Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
>    Resource id in failed request: 0x38001d7
>    Serial number of failed request: 3011
>    Current serial number in output stream: 3824
> ********************************
>