[CALUG] ${DISPLAY}

[Rajiv Gunja]

Yup, Xvfb works very well for such requirement. It is a pain to kill
sometimes when the process using it hangs, unless you know exactly where the
semaphores are located on the disk. Also if you cannot kill that display,
you can always open another Xvfb on a different display number.

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Rajiv G Gunja
Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com


2009/12/21 William Kupersanin <wkupersa at gmail.com>

> Do you mean like xvfb?
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Jason C. Miller
> <jason.c.miller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of any universal methods to set the DISPLAY to direct X
> > traffic to a dummy device so that a GUI can run even if no windowing
> > environment is running?
> >
> > Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away, I found some apps that ran
> when
> > DISPLAY was set to "/dev/null", but that is hardly universal, was a very
> > unique case, and was an awful hack.
> >
> > Are there any tricks for doing anything like this?
> >
> >                                ~j
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