Mark Gordon wrote:

> - one big executable.  There's now just one binary that generates the
> right kind of display based on the context in which it is executed.
> Specifics:
> --if you have $DISPLAY set or pass --display on the command line, you
> get X preview.
> --if you're at the console, and either you're root or you have MegaPov
> suid root, you get SVGA preview.
> --if none of the above (you're at the console as pondscum, you're in a
> telnet session without specifying a --display, etc.), you get ASCII.
> Let me know if anyone has any other needs not met by this.
> This is conditionally compiled, so it should compile fine on machines
> that don't have X or SVGAlib.

Maybe a stupid (and selfish ;-) idea: would it be possible to have
something that would continue running if you log out and shut down the X
server even if povray was started with X display and without nohup?

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