Running servoshell

Assuming you’re in the directory containing servo, you can run servoshell with:

$ ./servo [url] [options]

Use --help to list the available command line options:

$ ./servo --help

Enabling experimental web platform features

Servo has in-progress support for many web platform features. Some are not complete enough to be enabled by default, but you can try them out using a preference setting. For a list of these features and the preference used to enable them, see [Experimental features](../design-documentation/experimental-features.md]. In addition, you can enable a useful subset of these features with the --enable-experimental-web-platform-features command-line argument or via the servoshell user interface.

Keyboard shortcuts

• Ctrl+Q (⌘Q on macOS) exits servoshell
• Ctrl+L (⌘L on macOS) focuses the location bar
• Ctrl+R (⌘R on macOS) reloads the page
• Alt+← (⌘← on macOS) goes back in history
• Alt+→ (⌘→ on macOS) goes forward in history
• Ctrl+= (⌘= on macOS) increases the page zoom
• Ctrl+- (⌘- on macOS) decreases the page zoom
• Ctrl+0 (⌘0 on macOS) resets the page zoom
• Esc exits fullscreen mode

Troubleshooting

servoshell should run on most systems without any need to install dependencies. If you are on Linux and servoshell reports that a shared library is missing, ensure that you have the following packages installed:

• GStreamer ≥ 1.18
• gst-plugins-base ≥ 1.18
• gst-plugins-good ≥ 1.18
• gst-plugins-bad ≥ 1.18
• gst-plugins-ugly ≥ 1.18
• libXcursor
• libXrandr
• libXi
• libxkbcommon
• vulkan-loader