Bug 2967

Summary: Add a script to run command against an Xvfb display
Product: Sisyphus Reporter: Mikhail Zabaluev <mhz>
Component: xvfb-runAssignee: Alexander V. Nikolaev <avn>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 CC: glebfm, ldv, mike, placeholder, vt
Version: unstable   
Hardware: all   
OS: Linux   
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My previous attempt on this none

Description Mikhail Zabaluev 2003-09-11 12:41:12 MSD 
There is a need for an X environment for some builds to succeed.
The nature of the X server is irrelevant.
For this, a script could be devised to launch an Xvfb display with as much
safety as possible.
There are two possible modes of operation for such a script.
1. Run a single command under the Xvfb environment, then shutdown the server.
2. Launch an Xvfb server and dump environment variable settings for DISPLAY,
XAUTHORITY and a variable for Xvfb pid or pidfile in form of shell commands on
standard output. Usage for this is similar to that of ssh-agent:
eval `xvfb-start`
# do stuff
... 
xvfb-shutdown  # this could be another script that picks up the variables

start-stop-daemon could be helpful in starting/stopping the Xvfb server reliably.
Comment 1 Mikhail Zabaluev 2003-09-11 12:43:41 MSD 
Created attachment 274 [details]
My previous attempt on this

This is a rework of oo-xvfb-run script from Debian.
Comment 2 Anton Farygin 2003-09-11 13:51:26 MSD 
reassign to real mantainer
Comment 3 Dmitry V. Levin 2004-03-19 03:02:45 MSK 
It's packaged long time ago (Feb 06 2003) by Alexander Nikolaev. 
Please check this package (xvfb-run-1.0-alt1).
Comment 4 Mikhail Zabaluev 2004-03-19 10:48:21 MSK 
xvfb-run works, thanks everyone involved.
Comment 5 Michael Shigorin 2006-09-27 22:31:14 MSD 
So fixed? (btw, xvfb-run-1.2-alt2 now => seems maintained)
Comment 6 Mikhail Zabaluev 2006-09-27 23:11:21 MSD 
(In reply to comment #5)
> So fixed?
I think so.