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[vdr] Re: ProjectX requires DISPLAY?



Tony Houghton wrote:
In <41D18255.2080009@granveaud.com>, Boris Granveaud wrote:

  
you can start a virtual X11 framebuffer with Xvfb. Check this page for 
example: http://products.davisor.com/chart/doc/headless.html
    

Or with realvncserver. That's quite handy because you can view the
headless machine's desktop on another PC, connecting and disconnecting
the latter when you like without disturbing the session.
  
right. In fact, it depends if ProjectX really needs to open a window for some GUI interaction (I don't know at all ProjectX). Some Java programs need a X11 server only for internal graphic operations (create a double buffer, load an image etc). In this case, a virtual framebuffer that you cannot see at all, is a good solution.

B.


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