Request Help With Gdk.Display
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Wed Aug 16 14:11:16 EDT 2017
On 2017-08-16 18:57, Wildman via Python-list wrote:
> I am working on a program for the Linux platform that
> reports system information. The program reports screen
> information, number of monitors, resolution of each one
> and the total resolution. It does it using a couple of
> external utils, Xrandr and Xdpyinfo. It is my goal to
> replace the existing code with a python solution without
> depending on the external programs.
>
> With the help of a code snippet I found, I came up with
> this but it only reports the resolution of the primary
> monitor...
>
> #! /usr/bin/env python3
>
> import gi
> gi.require_version('Gdk', '3.0')
> from gi.repository import Gdk
>
> display = Gdk.Display.get_default()
> pm = display.get_primary_monitor()
> geo = pm.get_geometry()
> w = geo.width
> h = geo.height
> print(w,h)
>
>
> I know that the number of monitors can be obtained by
> using...
>
> mc = Gdk.Display.get_n_monitors(display)
>
> Then to get each monitor, this can be used...
>
> monitor = Gdk.Display.get_monitor(display, monitor_num)
>
> My problem is that I can't find any information on how
> "monitor_num" is obtained. The only thing I have been
> able to find out is that it is an integer. Can anybody
> point me in the right direction? Much appreciated.
>
If get_n_monitors tells you how many monitors there are, isn't
monitor_num just an index (0, 1, 2, ...)?
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