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Execute Twist scenarios on a box without a display (Headless)

Twist can be run on a box that does not have a display using Xvfb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb).

Follow these steps.
  1. Install Xvfb
  2. Start Xvfb server with the following command
    sudo Xvfb :1 &
  3. Set the display to :1
    export DISPLAY=:1 
  4. Now you can execute the Ant target to run Twist scenarios ant execute-scenarios

Sometimes, when starting Xvfb with the command described in step 1, the following error is thrown:

could not open default font 'fixed'

If this error occurs, start Xvfb by running the following command:

sudo Xvfb :1 -fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc &