From 81edd609f9841a84d5799d221277d45413a177cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Ofoegbu <tcnofoegbu@dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:35:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] update HtmlSvgOutput to ignore browser invocation when
 running in headless mode

---
 src/jalview/io/HtmlSvgOutput.java |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/HtmlSvgOutput.java b/src/jalview/io/HtmlSvgOutput.java
index 4793ac4..68f9924 100644
--- a/src/jalview/io/HtmlSvgOutput.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/HtmlSvgOutput.java
@@ -105,8 +105,11 @@ public class HtmlSvgOutput
       out.write(htmlData.getBytes());
       out.flush();
       out.close();
-
+      if (!(System.getProperty("java.awt.headless") != null && System
+              .getProperty("java.awt.headless").equals("true")))
+      {
       jalview.util.BrowserLauncher.openURL("file:///" + file);
+      }
     } catch (Exception e)
     {
       e.printStackTrace();
-- 
1.7.10.2