Questions tagged [xvfb]
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Selenium XVFB - Unable to receive message from renderer
Overview:
Selenium scraper works perfectly in headless mode. Spawning a virtual display shows no errors via XVFB:
from xvfbwrapper import Xvfb
vdisplay = Xvfb()
vdisplay.start()
vdisplay.stop()
But ...
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Virtual Display but with GPU/Hardware Acceleration
To do some automated screen recordings for promo videos of web applications I'm using chromium/selenium inside of xvfb to run the web application and ffmpeg to record the video. Even tough this looks ...
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Raspbian running headless doing scripted procedures on a internet page using text browser
I am somewhere between a new and intermediate linux user.
I am setting up a local network for a small group, and I need to configure an automatic sign-in to a webportal when internet connectivity is ...
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Multiple monitors with xfreerdp and Xvfb
I am trying to start an X server with multiple screens on a single Xvfb like this:
Xvfb :50 -screen 0 1792x1120x24 -screen 1 1792x1120x24
and start an RDP connection which will use those two screens:
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Problem with XServer - _XSERVTransSocketUNIXAccept: accept() failed
I run a headless Manjaro server with Xhost and Xvfb (for a display) and after about 236 instances of a program running, the server starts lagging a lot and the error _XSERVTransSocketUNIXAccept: ...
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How to improve XVFB display quality
I am currently running chrome on AWS Linux servers with this Puppeteer and XVFB setup.
I also built a little chrome extension that handles the recording with MediaRecorder and chrome.tabCapture.
It's ...
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Mouse doesn't work on xvfb
I am on ubuntu 18.04 (sadly, because of external considerations - EC2).
I run the following lines:
sudo /usr/bin/Xvfb :0 -ac -screen 0 1024x768x24 &
/usr/local/bin/x11vnc -dp -noxdamage -geometry ...
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Is X server running? xdpyinfo: unable to open display "" on Ubuntu 18.04 server
I'm attempting to start a program that requires rendering a window (Unity Game) on a remote server that doesn't have a display attached to it. I wouldn't want to use ssh -X to forward rendering ...
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Unable to send keypress to Xvfb display using XTestFakeKeyEvent in C
Using this short snipped of code I am able to capture events from the keyboard (/dev/input/event1) and print them properly. However, sending them to the Xvfb display using XTestFakeKeyEvent does not ...
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Google Chrome Extension not starting on cloned Linux Ubuntu 20.04 Virtual Machines
My own Google Chrome Extension should start when the Google Chrome browser is opened (via crontab xvfb-run), but it does not. The Extension is used via Developer mode and is not published in the ...
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Why are my Xvfb screenshots black with traces of color (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)
I am running a headless Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in the Google Cloud. There is an application I need to run in the background that requires a GUI. I am trying to use Xvfb to allow the program to run, but as ...
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Can we share an application window among different users/X servers?
We have a family machine with KDE, where each member has a different account. Mom, dad and children.
There are a few applications we'd like to be shared in such a way that they be available to all ...
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Display xvfb output in remote PC
I have a Windows pc that I use to connect to my Ubuntu PC over ssh that I use as a server (18.04) that is connected only to the internet and power (No monitor). When I run glxgears -info I only get 8-...
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Running GLFW in Docker
I have a simple program written in Go that opens a blank window using GLFW. I'd like to automatically run tests, therefore I have been trying to get GLFW running in docker. So far I've already managed ...
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2 x11vnc servers with separate displays showing different windows, overlapping
I am running a python (includes pygame) program on debian-jessie system with x11vnc and xvfb installed. I want to display terminal window and pygame window separately using xvfb and x11vnc. My ...
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Can't Run xvfb @ 16:9 on MATROX MGA-G200
Capturing server screen configured as follow, the screen capture occurs but the ratio captured is not 16:9, is that due to video card ?
Did :
cvt 1920 1080 60
xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00" ...
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Xvfb: export display permanently
I have recently set up Xvfb on Centos 7 machine.
It is working absolutely fine.
Only problem is that if I quit putty session (remote access) it would keep running Xvfb in background but display ...
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How to display an X11 screen from a remote machine? (Alternative to ssh -X)
I am locally on a machine without root rights. X forwarding is disabled.
Remotely I am running a process on a machine without a screen, using the Xvfb virtual framebuffer which simulates an X server ...
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Looking for a simple smoke-test for xvfb
I have a server (Tomcat) that uses xvfb for headless rendering with libwebkit.
I have a very short Java sample code to test that the whole setup (xvfb+libwekit, called from Java) works.
It works on ...
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Xvfb + glxgears fails
I'm trying to use Xvfb, but it can't even run glxgears for some reason, and I don't know how to debug that, maybe I'm missing something. Here's the commands I'm using:
Xvfb :99 +extension GLX -screen ...
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How can I prevent running "Xvfb :10 -ac" if it has already been run before?
I'm using Amazon Linux. I'm running an automated script through Jenkins with this command
Xvfb :10 -ac
However, if this command has already been run before, I get the error ...
(EE)
Fatal server ...
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Installing xvfb on Debian
I am trying to install xvfb on Debian in a Docker container.
The base image for the Docker container is
node:8
install instructions => How to install xvfb on Debian 8 (Jessie) | howtoinstall.co
So ...
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Debian: Start Xvfb with systemd script and send to background
Im trying to write a systemd script which starts Xvfb in the background.
Doing this in the console is no problem of course with appended "&".
But i tried to write a systemd script and when im ...
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Xvfb in Python virtual environment
I have some code that uses gtk so unless there is an active DISPLAY, the code raises an RuntimeError: could not open display… This happens when I run tox.
Is there a way to run a Xvfb server from ...
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How do I take a screen shot of my Xvfb buffer?
I'm using Amazon Linux. I want to run a headless chromium browser to use on my node.js Selnium tests. So I fire up my Xvfb server like so ...
if ! pidof /usr/bin/Xvfb; then Xvfb :0 -screen 5 ...
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WebDriverError: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed
I am trying to execute test scripts using Protractor, Google Chrome headless browser testing facility and xvfb on a Virtual Machine. I am running the command "npm run test:xvfb" to achieve this. But ...
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trying to get --listen-tcp on xvfb-run
I am trying to following these instructions http://afterdesign.net/2016/02/07/recording-headless-selenium-tests-to-mp4.html for recording selenium tests.
However, when I try to connect to xvfb with ...
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XServer: how to check who/what uses display:N
I have a strange situation. These are my commands and their outputs:
user@machine:~/Temp$ Xvfb :10 -screen 0 1024x768x16
_XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
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Xvfb: is some delay required running some program in new session?
I have a script.sh which I start in Xvfb new session this way:
Xvfb :10 -screen 0 1000x200x24 & export DISPLAY=":10" && script.sh
In script.sh I run one c++ program and one java program. ...
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xpra not working after upgrading debian
Once upon a time, I installed xpra and have been using it without problem.
Then my harddrive crashed. I installed a new identical one, and restored a dd image of 6 months ago (before I had installed ...
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How to connect to X app via VNC which was by xvfb-run?
When I run Xvfb server directly, x11vnc can attach to the display fine as per Wikipedia page.
However I'd like to achieve the same by running the X app using xvfb-run.
Here is my attempt (to run ...
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X virtual framebuffer screen is 1024x9216 instead of 1024x768
I've run the X virtual framebuffer server on Ubuntu Linux which I'd like to access its screen via VNC.
Here are my steps:
Xvfb :1.0 -screen 0 1024x768x16 &
Setup password by: x11vnc -storepasswd....
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Xvfb with 2 screens and Two x11vnc servers (one for each screen): only the first one work
I'm using CentOS 7 and x11vnc version 0.9.13 (release 11.el7) for arch x86_64.
I create Xvfb with two screens (:10.0 and :10.1) like this:
sudo Xvfb :10 -screen 0 1366x768x24+32 -screen 1 ...
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Xvfb -screen --> (EE) Cannot establish any listening sockets
I'm trying to run a gameserver for the game "Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat" on a VPS rented from Kimsufi running Ubuntu 15.10.
I've had prior experience messing around with Wine and Xvfb but ...
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How to run Xvfb without root?
Desired result on a server without root:
1) Run Xvfb without input devices, or
2) Just get Xvfb to run
Background:
I have two machines both having nearly identical builds of CentOS. One machine ...
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GLX doesn't work using xvfb-run
I'm on Ubuntu 14.04, and using it through ssh, which means I don't have local GUI for it.
I need to run some command that requires GLX, but things aren't going well.
Xvfb :80 -screen 0 1400x900x24 -...
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How to poll for Xvfb to be ready?
The Travis CI documentation says to run sleep 3 after starting xvfb to "give [it] some time to start". I couldn't find any reference to this delay in the man page. Is this cargo cult programming? If ...
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Error encounterd while running Firefox in Xvfb: "Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":99"." [duplicate]
I'm trying to run Firefox in Headless mode in a CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core)
I have already have firefox-45.3.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 installed.
I have run the following commands for the ...
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Strange rendering issues when using xvfb-run
I have an app running remotely on a beaglebone, written in wxPython. I want to run the app inside of a virtual frame buffer, using Xvfb, and access it remotely using a VNC.
It may also be pertinent ...
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Changing Xvfb frame buffer resolution while it's running
I run Xvfb with command:
Xvfb :1 -screen 0 100x100x16 -fbdir /tmp
And it's working fine. I can connect via VNC, and now under /tmp directory I have Xvfb_screen0 binary file.
I thought it will act ...
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Xvfb stuck at "built-in extension GLX" on Amazon Linux
I started to use AWS EC2 with Amazon Linux a few days ago.
I am running java with selenium webdriver over firefox to get some data from websites, and it works well when running on my windows computer.
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Howto terminate xvfb-run properly
In order to perform some JavaScript unit tests with karma inside a docker container (based on ubuntu 14.04) I'm starting firefox in the container using a karma-script-launcher with xvfb-run. The start ...
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How to take a screenshot of the X virtual framebuffer display?
I would like to take a screenshot from Xvfb display server.
I already tried:
xwd -root -silent -out screen.xwd
but I can't read this file and I couldn't find any software (via Homebrew) which can ...
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Extension “RANDR” missing on xvfb
My system:
$lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Xvfb:
$ dpkg -s xvfb
Package: xvfb
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wkhtmltopdf & debian - install
I have a question about the installation of wkhtmltopdf on Debian machines via the apt-get command.
So far, I've tested three environments, with different results, and I'd like to better understand ...
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Use xvfb to automate X program
I originally posted this question here, but upon second thoughts I decided here was a better place for this.
I sadly have to use this proprietary program that bundles a camera driver. I want to ...
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Run OpenGl program on remote server
I often use X11 forwarding (occasionally VNC) to work on a remote machine, and this has worked great. But now I need to run a program that uses a specific version of OpenGL that means it doesn't work ...
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Xvfb not sending SIGUSR1, breaking xvfb-run
I've been working a knotty problem trying to run headless tests using the xvfb-run script provided with Xvfb. It works on my own Ubuntu images running in VirtualBox, but on the Ubuntu 15.04 AMI that ...
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Trying to run program that requires X11 server on headless Raspbian install
I'm trying to run a program in mono that requires a graphical server. The Raspberry Pi it will run on is headless. When I log in with X forwarding enabled from my local computer, I can run the ...
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How to take higher resolution screenshots with CutyCapt
Assume i take a screenshot via
xvfb-run -s "-screen 0 1920x1080x16" cutycapt --url ... --out ...
then i have learned that cutycapt will not use the X sessions parameters.
How would i generate an ...
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