xvfb-run on OS X

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Axarsu picture Axarsu · Aug 22, 2014 · Viewed 35.3k times · Source

Is it possible to have xvfb-run on OS X?

I develop a PHP application which uses xvfb-run. Before I worked on Ubuntu and it was OK. Now I've moved onto Mac and the application does not work.

Or maybe any cross-platform alternative is available to use it on both Linux/OS X?

Answer

acidjunk picture acidjunk · Sep 25, 2015

X11 is no longer included with OS X:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201341

X11 server and client libraries for OS X are available from the XQuartz project:

http://xquartz.macosforge.org/

I'm not sure if it includes all the other X goodies like Xvfb. In that case you could compile it yourself; with these options:

--disable-xquartz --enable-xvfb --enable-xnest --enable-kdrive

More info here:

https://www.xquartz.org/Developer-Info.html

IMO: It seems like you would be better of by using wkhtmltoimage straight on the mac osx, removing the need for X:

http://minimul.com/install-osx-wkhtmltoimage-binaries.html

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