Headless chrome sendkeys

[Chris]

I'm using the headless chrome on ubuntu with the latest chromedriver version and the latest selenium version. I have xvfb running and everything works perfectly up until I try to use the sendkeys method to fill an input. When that method is called I'm seeing an error. Does anyone know how to resolve this or if there is a workaround? Here is the error...

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: an X display is required for keycode conversions, consider using Xvfb
  (Session info: chrome=37.0.2062.94)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.10.267518,platform=Linux 3.5.0-25-generic x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 84 milliseconds
Build info: version: '2.42.2', revision: '6a6995d', time: '2014-06-03 17:42:03'
System info: host: 'UbuntuDev', ip: '127.0.1.1', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '3.5.0-25-generic', java.version: '1.7.0_25'
Session ID: 4a3553280d3f5d9419d80d6372c285a4
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
Capabilities [{platform=LINUX, acceptSslCerts=true, javascriptEnabled=true, browserName=chrome, chrome={userDataDir=/tmp/.com.google.Chrome.f8WbYG}, rotatable=false, locationContextEnabled=true, version=37.0.2062.94, takesHeapSnapshot=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true, databaseEnabled=false, handlesAlerts=true, browserConnectionEnabled=false, nativeEvents=true, webStorageEnabled=true, applicationCacheEnabled=false, takesScreenshot=true}]
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:204)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:156)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:599)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.execute(RemoteWebElement.java:268)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.sendKeys(RemoteWebElement.java:89)

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Chris,

You might want to include the chromedriver.logs as well for what its worth so that someone may help you with this problem. I have never used the headless mode and as such I am not quite sure what is causing this only for sendKeys()

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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[pkjay...@gmail.com]

Chris, Are you able to solve it? I am having issues with Headless Chrome and sendkey as mentioned by you. Did you get any solution?