Selenium Server without X Window System - xvfb
August 3, 2016

For my acceptance tests configured in Jenkins I wanted to omit installing of any kind of X Window System. That’s pretty obvious when there is not enough RAM or we have to pay for every megs of it. But how a real browser like Firefox or Chrome would run without X servers? The answer is: X virtual buffer.
Let’s configure Selenium Server on top of xvfb on Ubuntu.
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