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I'm sorry but I don't consider an application that must be run under a windowing environment to be "headless". While this cool, its really not that different f
by helper 16y ago
I'm sorry but I don't consider an application that must be run under a windowing environment to be "headless".
While this cool, its really not that different from projects like http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/.
If you really want a headless webkit browser you would need to write a new webkit port to a graphics library that doesn't require a windowing system (maybe cairo).
- epochwolf 16y agoWhat's the cost of running an Xserver in the background? 20~30mb?
- blago 16y agoWhat happens when Xserver is not installed and you don't have the permissions or don't want to install it?
- andrewf 16y agoStrictly speaking all this needs is a working QtGui component in the Qt library. There are a couple of ways to compile Qt to operate against an in-memory framebuffer rather than a "real" windowing environment, although neither is a well supported part of modern Qt: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/pages/GettingStartedWithLighthouse/ http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/pages/GettingStartedWithLighthous... http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtextended4.4/qvfb.html http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtextended4.4/qvfb.html