[Qgis-developer] Matching canvas dimensions on workstation to Travis environment

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:05:00AM -0800, Tom Chadwin wrote:
> What is the default canvas size when QGIS is invoked in Travis - in other
> words, when QGIS is run for the first time after installation on Ubuntu? I
> have tests for qgis2web, but if I do:
> 
> mapCanvas().setExtent(layer.extent())
> 
> I get different values for the bounds of the canvas extent in the Travis
> test compared to my workstation. The test is invoked with the following
> screen size:
> 
> xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0, 1024x768x24"
> 
> So, how can I match my desktop environment to get the same canvas bounds
> that Travis gets?

Good question !
The script run by travis is: ci/travis/linux/script.sh
There's no specification of server-args there.
I think it would be great if "make check" could do a predictable
thing on all systems. Or at least start doing some more, as per
http://hub.qgis.org/issues/12172

--strk;