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  Re: pov64 - linux advice wanted please!  
From: Eero Ahonen
Date: 3 Dec 2005 17:02:21
Message: <439215ed$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>
>   Well, if you don't have X support in POV-Ray, you won't see the image
> while it's rendering it.
>   (Well, technically speaking that's not completely true because when
> there's no graphical window POV-Ray will instead show an ascii version
> of the image instead... However, that is in no way enough. :P )
>

And you can view the file with eg. gqview or Gimp while rendering. Since
POV won't scale the image, I'm currently running one render with -D and
checking status once in a while with gqview.

-- 
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
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