On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:25:00PM -0700, ed phillips wrote:
> Are you referring, Jim, to an Expect like feature set for Java.
>
> Is there such a set of classes? Perl has an Expect module. Hmmm
Joi's recommendation for xvfb is the right one. The Linux/Unix AWT always
expects an X server even if you never create a window. Xvfb is a fully
functional X server, but one whose "display" is in memory rather than
a physical display device - exactly what you need to run AWT code on
a server.
Nathan
> Ed
>
>
> Joi Ellis wrote:
> >
> > 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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> > No matter what we think of Linux versus FreeBSD, etc., the one thing I
> > really like about Linux is that it has Microsoft worried. Anything
> > that kicks a monopoly in the pants has got to be good for something.
> > - Chris Johnson
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