# Saving images from slicer views in headless compute node

**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/saving-images-from-slicer-views-in-headless-compute-node/138
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [April 18, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/saving-images-from-slicer-views-in-headless-compute-node/138 "2017-04-18T02:14:55Z")
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### Author: ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/saving-images-from-slicer-views-in-headless-compute-node/138/11 "2017-04-19T20:35:26Z")

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> [@mike\_i](#):
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> So thanks to you (and your older self from 6 years ago

Fair enough!

If it turns out you need to solve the other problem, for example extracting rendered 3D views from a headless Slicer I checked and a docker image that exposes a vnc connection for Xdummy works for me (you don’t need to connect to it, just running the server seems to be enough).

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