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Qama

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Registered: 2018-02-18

Posts: 4

Unable to run X server on a remote VPS server using xvfb

My app uses the library https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf which requires X server. Here's a workaround:

echo -e '#!/bin/bash\nxvfb-run -a --server-args="-screen 0, 1024x768x24" /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf -q $*' > /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh
chmod a+x /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh
ln -s /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com output.pdf

I've installed xvfb via pacman and followed the steps in the link. However, nothing has changed: it still returns an error

      wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com output.pdf

===>

     "qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display :0.0"

Last edited by Qama (2018-02-27 07:57:04)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,056

Re: Unable to run X server on a remote VPS server using xvfb

Wayland?

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