Questions tagged [xvfb]
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How to run puppeteer in Docker on VPS and connect to display server to local machine?
I am running a puppeteer-controlled chromium instance inside of docker on a remote server. For a specific operation, I need to be able to interact with the page that is opened by puppeteer.
This ...
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Fix Nvidia Breaking Xvfb?
I was using Xvfb again after having swapped my AMD gpu with a NVIDIA one, the result was rather annoying, i can no longer use Xvfb as it just crashes as soon as i launch it, Resolution doesn't seem to ...
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Increase FPS in new X display
I am trying to run an application in a different 'fake' X display, but I noticed that the performance (FPS) of the application if much smaller than in my original X display.
I tried to use Xephyr, ...
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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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Running Firefox in Xvfb: extension “RANDR” missing on display
I'm trying run Firefox headless with Xvfb in Debian 7.8.
I run Xvfb (I tried with +extension RANDR and -extension RANDR)
$ sudo Xvfb :10 -ac
[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/...
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Xvfb: keyboard error
We have some GUI tests (selenium) that are run on a virtualized CentOS6.6 environment and when the Xvfb process is started, we get the following error:
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:...
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Problems while executing slimerjs on linux (Centos 6.5 32bit)
I'm not used to work with Linux yet I wanted to try to use slimerjs on a Linux vps in order to have access to php exec function since most hosting companies disable that function.
I did manage to ...
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xvfb-run aborting on cluster
I'm trying to run a python script with xvfb-run on a cluster using SLURM; when I use an interactive session (srun) it works fine, but when submitting to a queue (sbatch) it aborts/fails without much ...
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GLX extension not working properly with xvfb
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 system with the following packages installed:
libegl1-mesa:amd64
libegl1-mesa-drivers:amd64
libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64
libgl1-mesa-glx:...
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Is there difference between Xvfb option `-extension` and `+extension`?
I'm facing RANDR missing problem with Xvfb and firefox.
Some people suggested Xvfb :1 -extension RANDR can solve the problem.
But I found a also +extension option.
In my environment(CentOS6.5), the ...
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Why does `xvfb-run glxgears` fail with an swrast error?
xvfb is supposed to let me run X programs in a headless environment. But when I run xvfb-run glxgears, I get:
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=...
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Can I run xvfb on a console-only debian system?
I need to be able to run firefox on a console-only debian system, and I want to run it using xvfb.
The command I have been using to run it on my regular debian system is:
$ xvfb-run firefox &
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Xvfb or Firefox throwing errors & gratuitously logging
per the answer to this question, I'm running Xvfb to make a virtual display so firefox will run on my CentOS server. (I don't need to see firefox or do any actual key or screen input/output with ...
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Xvfb does not release memory
We want to create screenshots of websites for our software, and we are doing this by using CutyCapt with Xvfb.
Unfortunatly every time CutyCapt takes a screenshot, the memory of Xvfb increases .. ...
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unable to open X server
I am trying to generate a screenshot of a firefox window in my terminal, but I keep getting an error:
root@host [~]# DISPLAY=:1 firefox http://www.cnn.com & sleep 5 && DISPLAY=:1 import -...
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CutyCapt seems to ignore the Xvfb screen size parameters
I have a problem using CutyCapt to create images rendered for a particular screen size.
For example, if I do these:
xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0, 800x600x24" \
~/bin/CutyCapt/CutyCapt --url='...
