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davidgereb
davidgereb

Reputation: 119

Starting kivy GUI app from terminal

I recently installed python, pygame and kivy on Ubuntu 14.04LTS, I want to create a GUI that will run on a 10" capacitive touchscreen(haven't arrived yet). I managed to start the kivy hello world app with lightdm running, but I want to start it without ubuntu's GUI running, from standard terminal mode. But it says that 'Unable to get a Window, abort'. How do I make a GUI that runs from terminal mode?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1405

Answers (1)

inclement
inclement

Reputation: 29450

According to https://stackoverflow.com/a/3331769/2469283 this is possible, but maybe kivy would need modification to do it, I'm not sure. Probably you'd need a custom window provider and maybe other stuff, as sdl2 etc. probably need X11.

Also, you don't need pygame any more, kivy has switched to sdl2.

Upvotes: 1

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