Jenkins usually runs as a daemon with no access to the bit mapped display device or user GUI session. Nothing still prevents you from starting a process like Xvfb during a build process and having the build use that. Xvfb is an X server which uses memory instead of hardware for drawing.
-- Sami Florian Lier <hud...@icram.de> kirjoitti 8.2.2012 kello 20.30: > Hey everyone, > > is it possible to launch builds on a slave (Linux), launched via ssh btw, > which make use of "X"? > The only thing I can think of is to export $display vars on the slave, is > there any other way? > > Cheers, > Florian
