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I'm trying to run SlimerJS in headless mode so that it does not open a visible browser window on Mac OSX.
According to the SlimerJS docs, this can be done using xvfb which is "available on Linux and MacOS", using the command:
>> xvfb-run ./slimerjs myscript.js.
Although OSX comes with bundled with xvfb, it does not have the corresponding xvfb-run script.
How can I get the same functionality using the OSX xvfb version?
You can try something like the following (works for me with running my python test cases):
$ Xvfb :1337 & export DISPLAY=:1337 & ./slimerjs myscript.js.
xvfb expert, but Xvfb :1337 starts an "x-window virtual frame buffer" (xvfb), which will pretend to be a window server, but will not write anything to a screen) listening on port 1337; export DISPLAY=:1337 sets the DISPLAY env variable to that same port number - so X applications send their screen commands to that port; ./slimerjs mysript.js calls the application, which will believe to be writing on the screen, running headless as we want.
May 5, 2016 at 19:34