node-xvfb: easily start and stop an X Virtual Frame Buffer from your node apps.
Usage
var Xvfb = ;var xvfb = ;xvfb; // code that uses the virtual frame buffer here xvfb;// the Xvfb is stopped
or:
var Xvfb = ;var xvfb = ;xvfbstart { // code that uses the virtual frame buffer here xvfb;};
The Xvfb constructor takes four options:
displayNum
- the X display to use, defaults to the lowest unused display number >= 99 ifreuse
is false or 99 ifreuse
is true.reuse
- whether to reuse an existing Xvfb instance if it already exists on the X display referenced by displayNum.timeout
- number of milliseconds to wait when starting Xvfb before assuming it failed to start, defaults to 500.silent
- don't pipe Xvfb stderr to the process's stderr.xvfb_args
- Extra arguments to pass toXvfb
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Thanks to
- kesla for https://github.com/kesla/node-headless
- leonid-shevtsov for https://github.com/leonid-shevtsov/headless
- paulbaumgart for creating the initial version of this package.
both of which served as inspiration for this package.