Running Pixotope in the background

Launching Pixotope will start

• all necessary Pixotope services

• including a Pixotope Director instance

Learn more about the different Services/Components of Pixotope

Running Pixotope in the background means that no Director instances are present and therefore no resources for rendering the Pixotope user interface are needed.

By default, Director is opened each time Pixotope is launched. To not open Director one can

• Manually close all instances of Director

• Change startup settings

Manually close Director instance

1. Click the Close icon on the top right

   

2. Click "Close Instance"

   • Closing all instances of Director will keep Pixotope running in the background (See below)

   • Closing Pixotope will close all Pixotope services

     

The Launch Director when opening Pixotope setting is the a shortcut to the one in Machine settings.

Change startup settings

To change startup settings to run Pixotope in the background

1. Disable Open Director when launching Pixotope in

   • SETUP > Machine settings

   • OR directly in the Close Pixotope dialog

Learn more about how to Change machine settings

On next startup

A notification is shown pointing to the Windows tray.

Open Director when running in the background

1. Double click the Pixotope tray icon which can be found in the Windows tray on the bottom right
   OR click the Pixotope tray, then "Open Director instance"

   

   

For faster access, drag the Pixotope tray icon into the Windows taskbar.

Quit Pixotope

1. Click the Pixotope tray icon

2. Select "Quit" in the menu