Clarify installation requirements on Windows/Mac

ponty / PyVirtualDisplay

Python wrapper for Xvfb, Xephyr and Xvnc

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Clarify installation requirements on Windows/Mac #69

Closed spookylukey closed 2 years ago

spookylukey commented 2 years ago

It seems some people have got PyVirtualDisplay running on Windows (e.g. https://github.com/ponty/PyVirtualDisplay/issues/40 ) but other people are clearly saying this is not possible e.g. https://github.com/ponty/PyVirtualDisplay/issues/56

Could there be some clarification in the README about this, with some installation hints for the major platforms?

I'm guessing:

for Windows you need to go the VNC route. @surfaceowl could you contribute here?
for Mac you need Xephyr

ponty commented 2 years ago

The installation requirement is to have the program installed you want to wrap: Xvfb, Xephyr or Xvnc. I don't know how this can be done on Windows. On Mac: brew install --cask xquartz