# Deactivate plot display to avoid need for X server

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**Created:** [January 7, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deactivate-plot-display-to-avoid-need-for-x-server/19359 "2019-01-07T18:19:25Z")\
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You can set the output type before using the `gr` backend using `ENV["GKSwstype"]=100` or ` `ENV[“GKSwstype”]=“nul”`, which activates the NULL device.

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