Re: [PyQt] headless browsing via PyQT4

2013-02-17 Thread Andreas Pakulat
Hi, On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Jiangcheng Bao jbao...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to achieve headless browsing via QWebView or QWebPage, but looks like the application would require a X server to connect to, even if I don't call the .show() method. The sample code at

Re: [PyQt] headless browsing via PyQT4

2013-02-16 Thread Kovid Goyal
xvfb Kovid. On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 07:27:04PM -0500, Jiangcheng Bao wrote: I am trying to achieve headless browsing via QWebView or QWebPage, but looks like the application would require a X server to connect to, even if I don't call the .show() method. The sample code at

Re: [PyQt] headless browsing via PyQT4

2013-02-16 Thread Jiangcheng Bao
Thank Kovid. I tried that, it works. But it would not work if my terminal is under unix screen program, which might not be a big deal if I launch via cron. I am also very interested in finding out if there's any way to configure it to run really headless, without relying on xvfb even. Thanks