# How to change render view settings for a headless installation without GUI

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-change-render-view-settings-for-a-headless-installation-without-gui/5176
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [August 25, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-change-render-view-settings-for-a-headless-installation-without-gui/5176 "2020-08-25T07:11:52Z")
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### Author: ![Jan\_Kaufmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/jan_kaufmann/32/4707_2.png) [@Jan\_Kaufmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jan_Kaufmann)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-change-render-view-settings-for-a-headless-installation-without-gui/5176/1 "2020-08-25T07:11:52Z")

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Hi All,

I would like to change e.g “Edit/ Settings/ Render View/ Advanced/ Line Offset Parameters” for our headless installation on a cluster. Normally I can change such values in the GUI. Python trace does not to record such actions. Hope anyone has an idea.

Thanks and best regards,  
Jan

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### Author: ![Jan\_Kaufmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/jan_kaufmann/32/4707_2.png) [@Jan\_Kaufmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jan_Kaufmann)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 8:32am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-change-render-view-settings-for-a-headless-installation-without-gui/5176/2 "2020-08-25T08:32:20Z")

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I am one step further, found possible solution described here [https://discourse.paraview.org/t/python-access-to-servermanager-generalsettings-and-renderview-settings/1369](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/python-access-to-servermanager-generalsettings-and-renderview-settings/1369)  
However, what I am still missing is, how to list attibute names of the proxy:

# ProxyManager helper

pxm = servermanager.ProxyManager()

# Custom rendering settings

renderingSettings = pxm.GetProxy(‘settings’, ‘RenderViewSettings’)

for prop in renderingSettings:  
print(prop) # lists only the property values, but not names

# following line raises an attribute error, as there is no 'ResolveCoincidentTopology ’ attribute.

renderingSettings.ResolveCoincidentTopology = ‘Shift z-buffer when rendering lines and points’

But how do I find the correct attribute names corresponding to the GUI settings?

Best,  
Jan

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### Author: ![jfavre](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@jfavre](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jfavre)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 8:45am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-change-render-view-settings-for-a-headless-installation-without-gui/5176/3 "2020-08-25T08:45:45Z")

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please try:

renderingSettings.SetPropertyWithName(“ResolveCoincidentTopology”, “Shift z-buffer when rendering lines and points”)

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### Author: ![Jan\_Kaufmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/jan_kaufmann/32/4707_2.png) [@Jan\_Kaufmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jan_Kaufmann)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 9:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-change-render-view-settings-for-a-headless-installation-without-gui/5176/4 "2020-08-25T09:04:09Z")

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> [@jfavre](#):
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> ResolveCoincidentTopology

Thanks a lot, Jean! Works as suggested.

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### Author: ![Jan\_Kaufmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/jan_kaufmann/32/4707_2.png) [@Jan\_Kaufmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jan_Kaufmann)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-change-render-view-settings-for-a-headless-installation-without-gui/5176/5 "2020-08-25T09:24:14Z")

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And in addition, in case I anyone else encoutners a similar problem:  
for above code snippet,

renderingSettings.ListProperties()

returns a list of all properities. Maybe helpfull.

Best regards,  
Jan