Old System, New Install Isuue

Wed Apr 29 00:44:28 PDT 2009

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, James Butler wrote:

>> Yes - Xvfb or Xvnc are the easiest ways.   Xorg using the "dummy" video
>> driver and "void" input driver is also a possibility.
>>
> Thank you!
>
> Xfb sounds like it would work for me. Basically I need something that will
> run continuously in the background (daemon-like), rather than during a VNC
> session. I'll get started on compiling from source to test it out.

Note however that Xvfb is quite unstable nowadays. See for example 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19470 .

Regards, 
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