Re: Weston headless backend - xvfb-run emulation
On 12/22/18 10:36 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:00:12 +0100 Martin Stransky wrote: Hi, I'm working on Firefox/Wayland port on Fedora and there's a need to run Wayland Firefox in headless Wayland session - it's used in build process to perform PGO build, it's used for test runs and so. It's generally what xvfb-run provides - a headless X11 server which launches a single command and quit when the command finishes. Is that possible with Weston and any of its backend? I haven't found any reference how to launch firefox inside weston-headles backend automatically so far. Hi, Weston doesn't have any kind of autolaunch feature, but there are interested people at least for the desktop use case. Weston's own test suite uses a custom plugin to launch test clients, but it's not installed. That might be a better approach for a test suite than a generic desktop app autolaunch, since you can make the compositor quit and forward the test app exit code. That plugin is at tests/weston-test.c, and it implements also a test protocol, but the most relevant part for you is idle_launch_client(). test_client_sigchld() handles quitting Weston. We could think of some kind of arrangement to allow using Weston/headless to run automated tests in other projects out-of-the-box. Maybe the idle_launch_client() functionality could be integrated in the headless backend directly... but then we need more changes in Weston's test suite to allow running the tests with different backends. Maybe that would be a slightly longer term plan. Are you only looking for headless launching of apps, or would you be interested in more features like screenshooting or fake input events to drive and check tests? Hello, Mozilla uses xvfb as a frame buffer X server and launches x11vnc inside it. The Firefox itself is controlled by Marionette [1] so there's no need for fake input events (AFAIK). Also the screen capture is not necessary for now. A good start would be to launch Firefox inside wayland headless session and I can work from this point further to investigate what's needed. If the plugin provides such functionality that will be fine for now. Thanks, ma. [1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/testing/marionette/marionette/index.html ___ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
Re: Weston headless backend - xvfb-run emulation
On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:00:12 +0100 Martin Stransky wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on Firefox/Wayland port on Fedora and there's a need to run > Wayland Firefox in headless Wayland session - it's used in build process > to perform PGO build, it's used for test runs and so. It's generally > what xvfb-run provides - a headless X11 server which launches a single > command and quit when the command finishes. > > Is that possible with Weston and any of its backend? I haven't found any > reference how to launch firefox inside weston-headles backend > automatically so far. Hi, Weston doesn't have any kind of autolaunch feature, but there are interested people at least for the desktop use case. Weston's own test suite uses a custom plugin to launch test clients, but it's not installed. That might be a better approach for a test suite than a generic desktop app autolaunch, since you can make the compositor quit and forward the test app exit code. That plugin is at tests/weston-test.c, and it implements also a test protocol, but the most relevant part for you is idle_launch_client(). test_client_sigchld() handles quitting Weston. We could think of some kind of arrangement to allow using Weston/headless to run automated tests in other projects out-of-the-box. Maybe the idle_launch_client() functionality could be integrated in the headless backend directly... but then we need more changes in Weston's test suite to allow running the tests with different backends. Maybe that would be a slightly longer term plan. Are you only looking for headless launching of apps, or would you be interested in more features like screenshooting or fake input events to drive and check tests? Thanks, pq pgpsfJegW1lgA.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
Weston headless backend - xvfb-run emulation
Hi, I'm working on Firefox/Wayland port on Fedora and there's a need to run Wayland Firefox in headless Wayland session - it's used in build process to perform PGO build, it's used for test runs and so. It's generally what xvfb-run provides - a headless X11 server which launches a single command and quit when the command finishes. Is that possible with Weston and any of its backend? I haven't found any reference how to launch firefox inside weston-headles backend automatically so far. Thanks, ma. ___ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
