msnbc and xvfb-run

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Thu Jul 19 17:37:12 UTC 2018


No, that alias didn't work on this end thanks for doing that search
though.  I ended up enclosing the -screen specification in apostrophe's
and had to add a $1 at its end for firefox to be able to take a file
name on its command line too.

On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:51:28
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: msnbc and xvfb-run
>
> As far as I understand, xvfb is only for playing streams, although you can
> write scripts which will use it when ripping a live stream.
> In looking around in my aliases, this may also help.
> alias ff              "xvfb-run -a -s '-screen 0 640x480x16' firefox
> -no-remote -a nullvideo -P nullvideo "
> That was written by a late Linux expert from our LUG who tried `really hard to
> find me access to live streams.
> Chime
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