PyVirtualDisplay 0.0.5

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 usages

Start Xephyr:

from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
xephyr=Display(visible=1, size=(320, 240)).start()

Create screenshot of xmessage with Xvfb:

from easyprocess import EasyProcess
from pyvirtualdisplay.smartdisplay import SmartDisplay
disp = SmartDisplay(visible=0, bgcolor='black').start()
xmessage = EasyProcess('xmessage hello').start()
img = disp.waitgrab()
xmessage.stop()
disp.stop()
img.show()

Installation

General

• install Xvfb and Xephyr.

• install setuptools or pip

• optional: pyscreenshot and PIL should be installed for smartdisplay submodule

• 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 xserver-xephyr
sudo easy_install pyvirtualdisplay
# optional
sudo apt-get install python-imaging
sudo apt-get install scrot
sudo easy_install pyscreenshot

Uninstall

# as root
pip uninstall pyvirtualdisplay