Selenium and Headless Environment

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We can use xvfb to create a headless environment for selenium (for example, to run over SSH).

Start xvfb with the following options:
$ Xvfb :89 -ac -noreset
(where :89 is the virtual "display" created).
Then, set the DISPLAY variable to be this virtual display:
$ export DISPLAY=:89
At this point, we can run the selenium server as desired. Examples follow.

Run the server Java archive:

$ java -jar selenium-server.jar

In Python:

from selenium import webdriverdriver = webdriver.Firefox()...

exception selenium environment headless robotframework

Here is a simple Robot library just for that purpose.

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