Cannot open display on server

Hi group.

I am writing a server/client-application, which does not use any kind of 
Gtk-windows or anything like that.

However I am using the gtk-lib to handel events from sockets and stuff 
like that. The application is working, but I am unable to use it on a 
server with no X-server installed.

Is there any way to keep the gtk-lib from crashing the whole application 
when trying to load it from a shell? Like making this crashing error 
into a non-crashing notice or something and still be able to use the 
Gtk-events from sockets? As said before, I dont use any windows or 
widgets anyway.


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Regards
Kasper Johansen