Hello:

I am working on a project "command line quaternions" which takes a
quaternion animation and makes an animation out of it.  One can use
gnuplot, imagemagick, or my favorite POVRay.  In a typical 10 second
animation, I'll make 100 images and make a gif animation so it can be
easily put in a web page.

I type out my command, and off it goes.  When it comes to render time, a
hundred times the render window pops up and takes the attention of my KDE
desktop.  ARG!  Is there a way to make these rendering windows show up with
little importance to the desktop?

Thanks,
doug

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The Stand-Up Physicist <swe### [at] alummitedu> wrote:
> I type out my command, and off it goes.  When it comes to render time, a
> hundred times the render window pops up and takes the attention of my KDE
> desktop.  ARG!  Is there a way to make these rendering windows show up with
> little importance to the desktop?

  Start povray with display turned off, or configure KDE to not to give
focus to the POV-Ray window (KDE supports that in a per-program basis).

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                                                          - Warp

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>   Start povray with display turned off

What is the command line option to do this?  I saw a flag -D that deals with
the display, but could not find documentation about it.

> configure KDE to not to give
> focus to the POV-Ray window (KDE supports that in a per-program basis).

This works.  Here are details for anyone else who needs to implement this.

Choose: Settings->Desktop->Window-Specific Settings
Make a new one.
In the Window tab, the Window class is 'povray povray'
In the Window Extra tab, choose everything.
In the Workaround, x the first box, Focus stealing prevention

doug

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> What is the command line option to do this?  I saw a flag -D that deals with
> the display, but could not find documentation about it.

My bad.  -D does the trick.

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