[yt-users] X11 issues with yt

Cameron Hummels chummels at astro.columbia.edu
Mon May 2 08:24:51 PDT 2011


Try making the first two lines of your code:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')

I believe the caps on the 'Agg' matter.

Cameron

On 5/2/11 11:18 AM, Elizabeth Tasker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I suspect this is really a python query, but I've been unable to fix 
> it... An cluster upgrade has meant I have to submit all my yt scripts 
> to the queue, rather than running interactively. For some reason, my 
> script wants to pull up a window to show its plot and then panics 
> because it can't find a display when it's submitted to a node. I don't 
> understand why it wants to do this when I ask it to save, not show:
>
>
>
> from yt.config import ytcfg; ytcfg["yt","serialize"] = "False"
> from yt.analysis_modules.api import EnzoSimulation as ES
> from yt.mods import *
> ..
> ..
> ..
> ..
> stuff
> ..
> ..
> ..
> pylab.plot(time, mass)
> pylab.ylim([6.39e9, 6.5e9])
> pylab.savefig("mass_fig.png")
>
>
> I tried adding a "matplotlib.use('agg')" in there but to no avail.
>
> Elizabeth
>
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