Francois Dispot wrote:

> 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?

My advice at this point is to kill the render and continue it nohup
without display when you decide to log off.  In theory I could try
hacking some of the signal-handling code, but I'm pretty sure it would
involve some major surgery.  Also, most users would expect logging out
and shutting down the X server to kill POV-Ray, so I'd have to find a
way for the user to request this behaviour.  I'm trying to keep this as
simple as possible; POV-Ray already has a confusing number of
command-line switches.  I might look into this for 4.0, but unless I
have some sort of epiphany, I don't see it coming in 3.5.

BTW, I plan on implementing frame numbering in X display of animations,
but that's going to wait for a future test release.  No promises for
3.5, but I haven't abandoned the project.

-Mark Gordon

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