Questions tagged [xvfb]
Xvfb is an X server for X11, but one that uses virtual memory to create a virtual frame buffer so that it can run on machines with no hardware display devices. Screens with various resolutions and bit depths can be created for the user's particular purposes.
36
questions
1
vote
0answers
39 views
Start Ubuntu GUI from CLI
I am having trouble starting the Ubuntu GUI from CLI. I currently have a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 desktop. I ran the following command to disable the GUI to start on boot (this is a headless ...
0
votes
0answers
121 views
xvfb-run Could not get a valid VA display org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get
When I try xvfb-run google-chrome I get error about Could not get a valid VA display
Here the full command :
/usr/bin/xvfb-run -a -e --listen-tcp --server-num 49
--server-args="-ac -screen 0 ...
1
vote
0answers
1k views
X11VNC Timed out waiting for a response from the computer
My objective is to view chrome browser UI on an AWS-EC2-Ubuntu machine. I logged into AWS-Ubuntu server via my MAC Terminal, installed X11vnc on Ubuntu server and started X11vnc using the below ...
2
votes
0answers
359 views
How to run GTK application on text mode of ubuntu and rotate to portrait view without x-server?
I am using ubuntu on text only with terminal in portrait mode to run the GTK application. I have removed GUI/Desktop mode. I tried to run it on ubuntu and other Linux operating systems.
I used '...
1
vote
1answer
1k views
Can't Install Go [duplicate]
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.12.6.linux-amd64.tar.gz
using this command I download Go to my device after that I try to extract the downloaded archive ...
1
vote
1answer
367 views
How to fake an audio card Ubuntu 18.04?
I am trying to create a minimum required setup to run an app with GUI that uses Java (already included in the install) on 18.04 cloud server.
I installed Xvfb + X11vnc and launch the app without ...
1
vote
0answers
102 views
ubuntu server 14.04 xvfb japanese characters as squares after release upgrade
Why did Japanese fonts suddenly stop displaying correctly?
Very difficult tough complex situation, at one time this gaggle was working, broke after a platform upgrade that coincided with a new code ...
1
vote
1answer
233 views
Dependency Loop When Trying to Install Firefox Xvfb
I am installing firefox xvfb on 16.04.4 (server) so that I can use the Firefox driver with Selenium in order to do screen grabs of our websites using Python. Unfortunately, I am in some sort of ...
0
votes
0answers
581 views
Can't upgrade WSL Ubuntu - how do I get xvfb-run? [duplicate]
I am running Xenial Ubuntu in Windows 10 subsystem linux system. I need to install xvfb-run but I can not because it is not in the repo. I guess I need to upgrade Ubuntu, but do-release-upgrade finds ...
1
vote
1answer
82 views
Install a program automatically with terminal (which has menus)
Is it possible to install a program automatically, which when extracted and run, it opens up a menu installer? (doesn't look like the installer has any options which I can pass in either).
Is there a ...
2
votes
1answer
3k views
How to install Firefox (to be ran in headless mode) on a Ubuntu non-desktop server with minimal dependencies? [closed]
I am using Ubuntu16 to host a Jenkins continuous integration server environment.
I need to host Firefox Headless mode which unfortunately still requires GTK3 to run. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/...
2
votes
0answers
1k views
xrandr: randr is missing after installing xorg
I am attempting to run xrandr because online it says you need xrandr to run lwjgl. However, whenever I try running xrandr it gives me the following error:
RandR extension missing
I tried running the ...
3
votes
0answers
423 views
SDL cannot find video device within an Xvfb
I want to run a program that is dependent on SDL 1.2 as a graphics backend within an X virtual frame buffer. I'm using the xvfb-run command like so:
xvfb-run --auto-servernum --server-num=1 -s 'fbdir ...
0
votes
1answer
867 views
Make mesa drivers become independent of previous nvidia installation
I had nvidia driver installed on my Ubuntu Server 16.04. I need to run some app which needs OpenGL, but since machine is "headless" a virtual screen must be created.
I tried to do it with Xvfb, but ...
8
votes
0answers
5k views
libGl, fbConfigs, swrast error in ubuntu 16.04
Recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit desktop.
Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on AMD OLAND (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.8.0)
When I have seen other link where they provide solution for Ubuntu with Nvidia not sure ...
0
votes
2answers
4k views
how do you permanently disable the screen saver in Xvfb?
I tried disabling extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER but the screensaver is activated after a little while anyway.
The list of loaded extensions is this
xdpyinfo -display :88|grep 'number of exte' -A 23
...
4
votes
0answers
2k views
Unable to get Virtual Frame Buffer / Display (Xvfb) Information with xdpyinfo
Ubuntu Server 16.04 running in VirtualBox
Setup
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-...
5
votes
1answer
10k views
Extension “RANDR” missing on xvfb
Ubuntu:
$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
...
0
votes
1answer
1k views
how to run “gradle run” through xvfb?
What are the equivalent directions for Ubuntu?
On your CentOS 6.3 host
Follow these steps to set up a CentOS 6.3 host to run headless
Selenium tests with Firefox.
sudo yum -y install ...
7
votes
0answers
2k views
Xvfb: GLX error when using nvidia driver
I would like to run some headless unit tests, my problem can be recreated with just glxinfo. I try to run:
xvfb-run glxinfo
It prints multiple lines about GLX:
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on ...
0
votes
1answer
780 views
xvfb-run hangs on trap/wait in Elastic Bamboo's Ubuntu 15.04 AMI on AWS
I'm trying to run some headless robot/Selenium tests via Elastic Bamboo using Xvfb, on Ubuntu 15.04 in AWS EC2. It works if I run Xvfb manually and then run the test...
export display=:99
Xvfb :99 -...
5
votes
2answers
12k views
Running Xvfb with firefox
I´m trying to run headlesless firefox with this command sudo xvfb-run -a firefox http://google.com
so i get this error
(process:9000): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size ...
3
votes
1answer
5k views
Configure xvfb for Vivid (15.04) as a service using systemd
Vivid switched from upstart to systemd. I used to have xfvb configured to run as a service under updstart. That has now broken.
Under upstart, I had /etc/init/xvfb.conf:
description "Xvfb X ...
2
votes
0answers
197 views
Xvfb and scripts on Ubuntu Touch/Phone
Will I be able to run "xvfb" on Ubuntu Touch/Phone? I've read that you can use apt-get and use bash. So will I also be able to run Python scripts which use "Selenium" and "Xvfb" for headless Firefox ...
0
votes
1answer
7k views
Openbox VNC on startup
I'm trying to get a openbox based VNC to run on start up, I have added the following to rc.local
Xvfb :1 -extension GLX -screen 0 800x600x16&
DISPLAY=:1 /usr/bin/openbox-session&
...
2
votes
1answer
3k views
Is XVFB (X virtual framebuffer) Open Source?
Please tell me if XVFB is open source or not. If it is open source, please send me link for XVFB source package for Unix like operating systems.
3
votes
1answer
2k views
Install MS Fonts for xvfb-run in Ubuntu 14.04 server
I have a cron which runs and takes a screenshot of a specific url. The job is:
xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0, 1024x768x24" /usr/bin/cutycapt
--min-width=1200 --min-height=1200 --delay=1000
--...
8
votes
1answer
22k views
How to use Xvfb in Ubuntu 14.04 with/without RandR?
I try to run Unit-Tests with Selenium running Firefox on my Ubuntu 14.04 Server. And I'm using Xvfb as described in this blog to simulate a virtual display to show Firefox in.
But Xvfg somehow doesn'...
1
vote
1answer
1k views
Which packages should be installed on Ubuntu server so it will be able to play video?
I have a server where Ubuntu Server 12.04 is installed. It's used for running automated browser tests. The tests use Firefox that is run in Xvfb. One of tests clicks button that usually invokes ...
1
vote
0answers
732 views
Could not init font path element /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, removing from list!
I am trying to install xvfb on my ubuntu server(without desktop) in order to run a selenium test case.
I followed this tutorial but while running the below code it showed me error like:
root@test-...
3
votes
2answers
11k views
Missing fonts in Xvfb
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04.3 64-bit as a guest under VMplayer running on my Win7 host.
After Ubuntu installs, I launch and open a terminal.
I then enter the following:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-...
2
votes
1answer
1k views
xvfb-run with melt hangs
I am using melt utility to flatten vidoes. in it there is a plugin called kdenlivetitle. this plugin imposes title text on video but it requires X server. for that i am using xvfb-run but it hangs in-...
3
votes
2answers
3k views
install Chinese(and other utf-8) fonts for Xvfb?
I have installed these packages:
apt-get install xvfb xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi firefox
But in my Firefox in Xvfb on Ubuntu Server, the Chinese characters look like:
How to install ...
3
votes
2answers
5k views
Can't get firefox to render the right size in a headless xvfb instance
I can start the xvfb instance just fine
Xvfb :1 -screen 0 800x600x24
I can then launch firefox and have it load correctly but the window is always smaller than the resolution I set during the xvfb ...
3
votes
1answer
2k views
How do I get an application to display on a “dummy monitor”?
I have a GTK program which I would like to run from a console in one of the virtual terminals (over SSH, and locally). Is there a way to get this application(or any other GTK application, for future ...
5
votes
2answers
1k views
Vertical resolution over VNC multiplied by 12
I run Ubuntu 11.10 with 2 monitors at a resolution of 3840x1080. This is done via NVIDIA's TwinView mode. When I run the following command:
x11vnc -safer -localhost -once -display :0 -ncache 10 -...
