Get SeleniumRC Browser Windows Out of Your Way

Here’s a way to stop annoying browser windows popping up and stealing your keyboard focus when running SeleniumRC tests.

1. Install Xephyr.
   On Fedora: $ sudo yum install xorg-x11-server-Xephyr
   On Ubuntu: $ sudo apt-get install xserver-xephyr
2. Start Xephyr.
   $ Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 1024x768 &
3. Open a terminal in the Xephyr xserver.
   $ DISPLAY=:1 gnome-terminal &
4. Start a window manager in the Xephyr server.
   $ DISPLAY=:1 metacity &
5. From the terminal within the Xephyr window start SeleniumRC server.
6. Run your tests. Now the browser will only pop up within the Xephyr window

Xephyr is an X windowing system whose display lives entirely within…a window in another X server! See the Xephyr site for more.