pymatplotlib without xserver
- by vigilant
Is it possible to use networkx or pymatplotlib without an xserver running? I keep getting the following error with their first example (of networkx):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 17, in <module>
nx.draw(G,pos,node_color='#A0CBE2',edge_color=colors,width=4,edge_cmap=plt.cm.Blues,with_labels=False)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/networkx-1.3-py2.6.egg/networkx/drawing/nx_pylab.py", line 124, in draw
cf=pylab.gcf()
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 276, in gcf
return figure()
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 254, in figure
**kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py", line 90, in new_figure_manager
window = Tk.Tk()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1646, in __init__
self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className, interactive, wantobjects, useTk, sync, use)
_tkinter.TclError: couldn't connect to display ""
