[CLUE-Tech] Headless Mozilla

[Angelo Bertolli]

Chris Tubutis wrote:

>On 13 Oct, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
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>>(My default display is :0.0 )
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>This brought up an idea... I was originally thinking you could set up a
>second, dummy display (:0.1) but I couldn't easily find how to do that
>in X and I'm too lazy to go RTFM.
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>But I thought of something else... in a prior life I've used a cool
>little utility called xvfb (X virtual framebuffer, google it) to allow
>headless servers to run FPOS commercial software that for whatever
>reason thinks it needs an X display. I'll bet you could set up xvfb on
>:0.1 and then have your background client "display" to it.
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I'll see if I can make it work.  But the next question is whether or not 
running later instances of Mozilla will also use that display.

Angelo