Running Skype Headlessly

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pbrisbin edited this page Jan 18, 2013 · 2 revisions

NOTE: This is an educated guess, will be testing this approach shortly

export DISPLAY=:2

Xvfb :2 &
skype &

# we have to give skype a chance to start up fully
sleep 5

bundle exec bin/basil start

You'll need to run basil at some point with access to the X server (maybe via SSH X11 forwarding) so that you can accept the API access request.