screeninfo

Fetch location and size of physical screens.

Supported environments

• MS Windows
• MS Windows: Cygwin
• GNU/Linux: X11 (through Xinerama)
• GNU/Linux: DRM (experimental)
• OSX: (through AppKit)

I don’t plan on testing OSX or other environments myself. For this reason, I strongly encourage pull requests.

Installation

pip install screeninfo

Usage

from screeninfo import get_monitors
for m in get_monitors():
    print(str(m))

Output:

Monitor(x=3840, y=0, width=3840, height=2160, width_mm=1420, height_mm=800, name='HDMI-0', is_primary=False)
Monitor(x=0, y=0, width=3840, height=2160, width_mm=708, height_mm=399, name='DP-0', is_primary=True)

Forcing environment

In some cases (emulating X server on Cygwin etc.) you might want to specify the driver directly. You can do so by passing extra parameter to get_monitors() like this:

from screeninfo import get_monitors, Enumerator
for m in get_monitors(Enumerator.OSX):
    print(str(m))

Available drivers: windows, cygwin, x11, osx.

Contributing

git clone https://github.com/rr-/screeninfo.git # clone this repo
cd screeninfo
poetry install # to install the local venv
poetry run pre-commit install # to setup pre-commit hooks
poetry shell # to enter the venv

This project uses poetry for packaging, install instructions at poetry#installation