[browsershots-factories] Re: Trying to set up new factory on MacOS

[Martijn Frazer]

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
 > Your project is very useful and I'd love to contribute by setting  
up a
 > factory on my Mac (particularly as your Mac queue seems to get  
quite long).
 > However, I really need to use this machine a lot of the time.
 >
 > Is there definitely no way to use the shotfactory without taking  
over the
 > screen, like the Linux version does?  Surely MacOS X is pretty  
similar?

Hello,
I have just recently set up my iMac as a Shotfactory. I also use this  
machine quite a lot, so the way I got around this problem was by  
setting up an extra user on my system, called "browsershots". I  
installed all of the required components for this user, lke netpbm and  
made sure it's PATH-variable was ok and then simple ran the python  
script to start serving.
But now comes the cool part: I use fast user switching to switch back  
to my own account and now I can simply work in this account while the  
other keeps servering browsershots in the background. It works great :)
Hope this helps,
Martijn