Re: What function sets up the GNUstep environment?

[David Chisnall]

On 04/11/2020 18:54, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> Just FYI, you still need a display server (whether that's X or Windows 
> or whatever) to start a headless application.  Is this an issue?  If it 
> is, then we would need something like the null backend.

I have worked around this issue in the past by running Xvnc and 
configuring the DISPLAY environment variable to look for the UNIX domain 
socket where Xvnc was listening.  Xvnc was configured to listen on a 
socket that no one had access to.

This is more overhead than a proper null back end (it's still rendering 
all of the things, its just sending them nowhere), but it's a quick hack 
that lets you run things on a headless machine.

David