From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 00:37:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DCC216A4D1 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:37:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bloodwood.hunterlink.net.au (smtp-local.hunterlink.net.au [203.12.144.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B29043D3F for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:37:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from boris@brooknet.com.au) Received: from [61.8.43.92] (ppp2B5C.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.43.92]) iAI0UltB020116; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:30:48 +1100 Message-ID: <419BEEBB.1020608@brooknet.com.au> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:37:15 +1100 From: Sam Lawrance User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041115) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Wilkinson, Alex" References: <20041118001111.GB66483@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <20041118001111.GB66483@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome-update script halts on thunderbird (installing default themes?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:37:21 -0000 Wilkinson, Alex wrote: >what is Xvfb ? > > It's the X server you have when you're not having an X server. Xvfb is a virtual framebuffer X server - "virtual" because there's no actual physical display. In this case, the port uses it to provide an X display for the install process without having to show it. I've no idea what other uses it has, but you could search for more. Regards Sam