113) Is there a "pseudo-tty" or fake X display I can use?


Applications often have a need to run against an X display which isn't tied
to a physical display -- perhaps to make a screendump, or to run when the
software expects to have an open display. In these cases, the X Virtual Frame
Buffer can be used. It is a full X server which doesn't open any devices (the
output can be a memory-mapped file) but which otherwise behaves as an X
display. It is also useful for testing. The Xvfb is part of the X11R6
distribution, in programs/Xserver; set the configuration option in
config/{machine}.cf to build the distribution with this server.

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