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OSMesa is used since Octave 4.0 for offscreen rendering from OpenGL toolkits FLTK and Qt.
OSMesa is used since Octave 4.0 for offscreen rendering from OpenGL toolkits FLTK and Qt.
This enables printing without a X display, for example when ssh'ing to a remote machine, or if the figure is invisible (Bug #33180).  
 
This enables printing without a X display, for example when ssh'ing to a remote machine, or if the figure is invisible ({{bug|33180}}).  




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Floating point textures are disabled by default due to patent restrictions. We should check if we can enable it with "--enable-texture-float"
Floating point textures are disabled by default due to patent restrictions. We should check if we can enable it with "--enable-texture-float"
== known problems ==
* {{bug|44478}} Segfault with proprietary Nvidia drivers
* {{bug|44979}} Clumsy/missing configure check
* {{bug|44338}} Doesn't work on Windows (MXE build)
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