[Mne_analysis] Creating figures without displaying them?

[Alexandre Gramfort]

hi Maria,

stc.plot uses mayavi and opengl and not matplotlib.

to use it in "headless" mode ie without an x server see:

http://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/tips.html#rendering-using-the-virtual-framebuffer

HTH
ALex


On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Maria Hakonen <maria.hakonen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear mne experts,
>
> I am trying to create figures without displaying them.
>
> I have used Agg as follows:
>
> import matplotlib
> matplotlib.use('Agg')
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>
> ica.plot_sources, ica.plot_overlay and ica.plot_scores seem to work
> correctly.
>
> However, "fig = stc.plot(surface='inflated', hemi=hemi,
> subjects_dir=subjects_dir, figure=i)" gives "ipython: cannot connect to X
> server".
>
> Any ideas what might be wrong?
>
> Best,
> Maria
>
>
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