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mmatera authored May 5, 2017
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IWolfram is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).


About graphics
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Currently, iwolfram has almost full supports for graphics when uses the original Wolfram's Mathematica kernel as the backend, and a very limited support when runs over the Mathics kernel. On the other hand, to generate image files, Wolfram's requires that the user have a graphic terminal open on the server. Worst, if a graphic server is not available, a call to a graphic command make the iwolfram kernel to crash. If we run the jupyter server in the same machine we are running the front end this is not a problem, but it could be if the server runs in a remote machine. To overcome this issue, a workaround is to use the xvfb xorg kernel to simulate a graphic server. To do this, we need to install xvfb in the computer where jupyter is going to run, and establish

'xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 640x480x24" /usr/local/bin/MathKernel'

as the the kernel backend.


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