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Xvfb stands for X virtual frame buffer, and implements the X11 display protocol without actually showing any screen output.

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Dependency Xvfb missing error on npm run

On running the command npm run test on ubuntu WSL-2 Windows 11. I get the following error: [email protected] test cypress run It looks like this is your first time using ...
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How do I figure out what to set my DISPLAY variable to for a virtual display?

Here's my uname -a info ... Linux qa3398c 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jun 23 10:52:51 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm running some Google Web toolkit tests that require access to a ...
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Selenium + ChromeDriver stuck for exactly 4 minutes

I'm trying to webscrap a web page with CloudFlare protection from remote server: #!/usr/bin/env python3 from xvfbwrapper import Xvfb from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome....
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1 xvfb, multiple applications

According to a previous question, Multiple clients on a single Xvfb server/process?, I can run multiple clients on a single xvfb process. If this is true, then how can this be done? Example: xvfb ...
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Different behavior under Xvfb and under a real X server / Xvfb alternatives?

I am trying to run a program (Ansys 13 Workbench) that requires a display in batch on a torque managed linux cluster. Running it as an interactive job with X forawrding to my local linux machine ...
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How to use pipewire with puppeter

I was using PulseAudio to redirect Puppeteer audio to a virtual audio sink, but I have encountered some issues. Now I want to switch to PipeWire instead.
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X forwarding broken after using Xvfb

I used Xvfb to create a fake desktop to run programs with graphical interface on a Debian pc without display for testing purposes. After completing these tests, I wanted to revert back to the "...
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How to make chrome run with GPU on ec2 instance

I'm running an ec2 instance with GPU ( g4dn.xlarge ) with image "Deep Learning Base AMI (Amazon Linux 2) Version 43.0" installed. I tried to run chrome with webgl support but no luck. I ...
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xvfb XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server

I'm running a Windows application in Linux using wine and xvfb, this combination works most of the time, I can see these errors messages many times (but not all the time) I have googled this errors ...
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Enable GLX extension in Xvfb in Xquartz

The version of Xvfb included in Xquartz on MacOS doesn't support GLX: $ Xvfb +extension GLX [mi] Extension "GLX" is not recognized [mi] Only the following extensions can be run-time enabled: [mi] ...
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Xvfb: connection refused when running test script via browser on Fedora

I have a python script which will only be triggered by calling my.ip.address/test. It works fine if I run the PHP code via command line. However,if I access the test automation via browser using the ...
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Xvfb does not start second screen

I need a docker test-bed with multiple fake screens in an X server, according to the man page xvfb can launch multiple screens with multiple resolutions, but I only ever get screen 0. An example ...
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qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display

Cannot get CutyCapt to work. I am running this on a CentOS 7 VM. I am running this directly on the command line and not using a script yet. # echo $DISPLAY :0 # CutyCapt --url=https://hostname/abc --...
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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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Selenium/Xvfb Issues with Jenkins

I'm struggling to get Jenkins to run Selenium/Xvfb for some functional tests on a project. Either Jenkins will hang and the job never finishes or ends up terminating with errors. This is using the ...
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Google-chrome crashes on Ubuntu 12.04

I am running chrome inside Xvfb session. I am using Google Chrome 40.0.2214.91 version. I am using the following commands to run it: Xvfb $DISPLAY -screen 0 1920x1080x24 2> /tmp/xvfb.log & ...
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