A /dev/null equivilent for DISPLAY when the display is just noise

Question

I\'m running a java app which creates a visual display of some of the things it is doing, while it is doing it. However, I\'m want to run this in a script that won\'t have a dis

Answer 1

If it's a java program you can use the headless mode to run the application.

Try to run it with -Djava.awt.headless=true parameter, like this if it's a jar file:

java -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar jarfile.jar

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