bounce-desktop 0.1.2

Hardware-accelerated Linux virtual desktops.

Bounce Desktop

Bounce Desktop is a cpp library and python package for starting and interacting with lightweight hardware-accelerated virtual desktops. It does this by running VNC-backed Weston sessions and then connecting to them with a VNC client.

I've written Bounce Desktop to serve as a desktop platform for my RL with Games framework: BounceRL.

Dependencies

poetry, libvncserver (optional), gmock, gtest, libgvnc (from gtk-vnc)

Getting started

If you want just want the python package, you'll first need to install the system dependencies listed above. Then you can run this pip command:

pip install bounce_desktop

Usage

I don't have docs or clear examples handy, but for starter pointers, see: src/desktop/client.h, bounce_desktop/bounce_desk_test.py, and src/bindings/client_exe.h.

Roadmap

This project's being developed to support BounceRL, so I'll be focusing development toward that project's needs. With that said, I do think there's value in having a lightweight virtual desktop library available, and I do think one could develop this project toward that goal if they're interested.

I also think this project should be close to feature complete at this point, I may at some point integrate the prototyped, but unused, subprocess reaper into the desktop class, so that callers can get guaranteed process clean-up, but we'll see if or when I need that feature.

Contributing

I don't plan on accepting pull requests in the near term, but I'll take a look at any issues or feature requests you open.