fix: keep model compilation headless

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 20:50:00 +02:00
parent 4d38967078
commit 228f0b347e
3 changed files with 72 additions and 10 deletions
@@ -126,8 +126,9 @@ exactly as the reference does:
  - Beamdog install dirs.
  - `--nwn <install>` overrides (path to the install root or directly to the
    binary).
- **Headless.** The engine is a GUI binary. If there is no `DISPLAY` and
-  `xvfb-run` is present, wrap the call:
+- **Headless.** The engine is a GUI binary. Require `xvfb-run` and wrap the call
+  regardless of the caller's `DISPLAY` so compilation never opens the client
+  UI; fail before invoking the engine when `xvfb-run` is unavailable:
  `xvfb-run -a --server-args=-screen 0 1024x768x24 nwmain-linux compilemodel <stem>`.
 - **Per model (one at a time — the engine's `development/` and `modelcompiler/`
  folders are flat and single-slot):**