PyVirtualDisplay 0.0.1

python wrapper for Xvfb and Xephyr

PyVirtualDisplay is a python wrapper for Xvfb and Xephyr

home: https://github.com/ponty/PyVirtualDisplay

documentation: http://ponty.github.com/PyVirtualDisplay

Possible applications:

• GUI testing

• automatic GUI screenshot

Basic usage

from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
# Start Xephyr
disp1=Display(visible=1, size=(320, 240)).start()

Installation

General

• install Xvfb and Xephyr.

• install setuptools or pip

• install the program:

if you have setuptools installed:

# as root
easy_install PyVirtualDisplay

if you have pip installed:

# as root
pip install PyVirtualDisplay

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo apt-get install xvfb
sudo apt-get install xephyr
sudo easy_install PyVirtualDisplay

Uninstall

# as root
pip uninstall PyVirtualDisplay