@User I've got some questions in the context of https://github.com/RTimothyEdwards/magic/pull/143 Is there currently a way to disable x while still enabling headless TCL scripting?

magic -dnull -noconsole

starts magic without graphics and gives you only the Tcl command line.

yes, but I was curious if it was possible to compile magic so it only support that mode (without linking against x11)

Yes; the

magic -dnull

invocation runs the

magicdnull

executable, which shouldn't be linked to anything X11-related.

I did had trouble making

--without-x

working (see: https://github.com/RTimothyEdwards/magic/pull/143/files) so maybe this is related?

Quite likely.