Talk:Xvfb
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Kudos for the beautiful screenshot :^p.
Who wrote Xvfb? Is it open source? If yes, where can it be found? Is it part of some other software package (e.g. some X window distribution)? Are there other X window programs with similar functionality? Funkyj 18:13, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks: that image was easy to generate, and is also public domain! As for your questions:
- It is part of the standard X distribution, as far as I know, so it should be open source (however, it comes with a separate package on my Linux distro).
- The man page linked in the article says the author was David P. Wiggins, The Open Group, Inc.
- I do not know of any similar program for X
Maybe some of this information can be added to the article? Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 19:31, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
- Hello,
- Xvfb uses a virtual framebuffer instead of, e.g. a video framebuffer. So this X-Server doesn't use any graphics card but exists only in the ram, easily spoken. And yes, there *are* many "implentions" of this concept, for example Xvnc or Xnest. Xvnc has also a virtual framebuffer which can be "accessed" via VNC (of course that's much more complicated). Xnest's framebuffer is theoretically saved by the X-client (you know, Xnest is a X-Server which's output is sent to another X-Server ;-).
- Xvfb comes along with common X implentations like X.Org and I think it's rewritten many times like many other software. Another comment: I think the image has absolutly no sense. You cannot make a screenshot of Xvfb because it can look whatever you want to make it look like ;-)
- greetings, --84.178.70.92 21:22, 1 August 2006 (UTC) (I'm User:SvenK, you can contact me at commons:User:Sven. I'm planning to write a german Xvfb article which you'll be able to read at de:Xvfb when it's finished :-)
