[petsc-users] Petsc Draw to pixmap

[Sean Dettrick]

Hi Barry,

Thanks for the amazingly fast reply.  I installed home-brew but then was unable to find afterstep available as a package.  The closest thing I could find was asterm (after step terminal emulator.  Do you remember if you installed it from a canonical repo? 

I did find afterstep on github, but had trouble installing it on the mac.

Meanwhile, a colleague has given me a python script, so I’ll probably use that instead for now. 

Thanks again,
Sean

> On Dec 2, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> 
>   Sean,
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>   I have never been able to build from that source either. 
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>   I used homebrew to install it and its worked for several years.
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>   I also tried to see if one could pull the image from the X pixel map and it looked like a huge project (the pixmap stuff is not as trivial as one would think it would be) so I gave up on that and started using afterimage (which essentially does all the for you).
> 
>   Barry
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>> On Dec 2, 2015, at 3:39 PM, Sean Dettrick <sdettrick at trialphaenergy.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I’d like to have petsc draw output to a pixmap, but have been unable to install afterstep on my Mac.  Direct download of the tar files from http://www.afterstep.org/afterimage/getcode.php failed, as did cvs checkout.  It seems the target sites may not exist at present.
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>> Is there another way to install afterstep?
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>> Alternatively, is there a way to manually redirect the X11 output using something like XCreatePixmap?
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>> Thanks!
>> Sean Dettrick
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