Package xorg-xvfb: Information

  • Default inline alert: Version in the repository: 1.20.8-alt12

Binary package: xorg-xvfb
Version: 1.20.8-alt9
Architecture: i586
Build time:  Sep 16, 2021, 07:18 PM in the task #284832
Source package: xorg-server
Category: System/X11
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License: MIT/X11
Summary: A virtual framebuffer X Windows System server for X.Org
Description: 
Xvfb (X Virtual Frame Buffer) is an X Windows System server
that is capable of running on machines with no display hardware and no
physical input devices.  Xvfb emulates a dumb framebuffer using virtual
memory.  Xvfb doesn't open any devices, but behaves otherwise as an X
display.  Xvfb is normally used for testing servers.  Using Xvfb, the mfb
or cfb code for any depth can be exercised without using real hardware
that supports the desired depths.  Xvfb has also been used to test X
clients against unusual depths and screen configurations, to do batch
processing with Xvfb as a background rendering engine, to do load testing,
to help with porting an X server to a new platform, and to provide an
unobtrusive way of running applications which really don't need an X
server but insist on having one.

If you need to test your X server or your X clients, you may want to
install Xvfb for that purpose.

Maintainer: Valery Inozemtsev


Last changed


Sept. 8, 2021 Alexey Sheplyakov 2:1.20.8-alt9
- Fixed probing for device tree based PCIe buses (closes: #40868)
April 14, 2021 Valery Inozemtsev 2:1.20.8-alt8
- fixes: CVE-2021-3472
April 9, 2021 Alexey Sheplyakov 2:1.20.8-alt7
- Ubreaks starting of 2nd instance of Xorg. Required for light-locker.