Re: dia command line export needing X server

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 18:21 +0200, Cardon Denis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've developped a small Mediawiki extension for dealing with Dia file. 
> That is to say, it allows a user to upload a Dia file and integrate it 
> into a mediawiki page. When viewing the page, the dia file is 
> automatically converted to png for viewing.
>
> It already works quite well. However it looks like the command line 
> export of Dia require a that a X server run on the box. Obviously my 
> mediawiki runs on a server without head and there is no Xserver running 
> (actually it is a Xen virtual server, so virtually, there isn't even a 
> graphic card). To circumvent this issue, I installed a virtual X server 
> (Xvfb) and set the DISPLAY to use that X server. This issue reminds me 
> of an the same requirement of Java AWT graphic toolkit a few years ago. 
> The dependency has been removed since then. I hope it could be possible 
> for Dia too.
>
> Is the X server requirement is due to Gnome/Gtk+ framework or the dia 
> package? Is there any way to use the command line functionality without 
> running an X server?

This has previously been reported in
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119331 and fixed.  Do you run
with --nosplash?

> PS : I'll be glad to share the mediawiki extension if anybody want it.

A link to it would be nice for the Links page.

-Lars