dsh-headless-display
Runs GUI applications inside an isolated virtual X display without desktop interference, offering agent tools and a real-time web panel.
Install
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Plugin Overview & Capabilities
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Key Capabilities
- Manage headless virtual X displays (Xvfb) and optional desktop-visible displays (Xephyr)
- Provide 9 agent tools for display lifecycle, command execution, window listing, mouse/keyboard input, and screenshots
- On-demand viewer popout using loopback x11vnc without restarting active programs
- Serve 8 local HTTP endpoints under /gui-isolation/ for display control and screen snapshots
- Integrate a real-time clickable GUI interaction tab into dsh-better-sidebar
Useful For
- Running automated GUI testing and browser tasks without interrupting user desktop focus
- Providing agents with sandboxed X11 graphical program execution and inspection
- Taking screenshots and injecting targeted keyboard/mouse events into non-focused application windows
Who It Fits
- Developers automating Linux desktop workflows via DeepSeek Harness
- AI agent engineers requiring isolated graphical execution sandboxes
Documented Limitations
- Requires host Linux system with Xvfb, x11-utils, xdotool, ImageMagick, and optionally Xephyr / x11vnc installed
- Does not support 3D/Vulkan hardware rendering due to lack of DRI3 support in Xephyr/Xvfb
- Under KDE Wayland, popout XWayland viewer windows cannot automatically rise above native Wayland windows
- Web UI panel is polling-based (approximately 0.9s per frame) and requires dsh-better-sidebar to render sidebar tabs
DSH Compatibility
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Security Signals
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package.json declares 0 runtime, 0 development, 0 peer, and 0 optional dependencies.
package.json declares DSH bundle metadata.
GitHub reports the repository license as MIT.
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Public GitHub source metadata is available for this registry snapshot.
Source & Registry Notes
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- Source repository
- jingyingruodi/dsh-headless-display
- Registry source
- GitHub · dsh-plugin topic
- Registry classification
- Plugin
- Source checked
- 209c2f6 · 2026-10-25
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Repository Activity
- GitHub stars
- 0GitHub stars
- Forks
- 0
- Open issues
- 0
- Last commit
- 2026-10-21
- Last release
- 2026-10-21
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