On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Jim Caley wrote:
> It seems like a year or two ago I saw some sort of utility mentioned on this
> mailing list that could be used to "fake out" a text-based app that still needed
> to have a GUI display available. (Was it that some of the Swing classes wanted
> the graphical display or something? I can't remember.)
>
> I'm not finding this in the archives. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
I'll guess that you're thinking of the xvfb (virtual frame buffer)
X11 server which allows apps which manipulate fonts and/or images without
using a physical display device. It comes up on headless web servers
which want to generate dynamic gifs (hit counters) or whatever.
The image/font manipulation stuff won't load without an X11 display, so
xvfb is used to provide those resources without using an actual device.
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- Chris Johnson
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