Re: [Python-Dev] Testing tkinter on Linux

2015-08-27 Thread Zachary Ware
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 5:00 AM, R. David Murray > wrote: >> I believe gui depends on the existence of the DISPLAY environment >> variable on unix/linux (that is, TK will fail to start if DISPLAY is not >> set, so _is_gui_available will re

Re: [Python-Dev] Testing tkinter on Linux

2015-08-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 5:00 AM, R. David Murray wrote: > I believe gui depends on the existence of the DISPLAY environment > variable on unix/linux (that is, TK will fail to start if DISPLAY is not > set, so _is_gui_available will return False). You should be able to > confirm this by looking at

Re: [Python-Dev] Testing tkinter on Linux

2015-08-27 Thread Florian Bruhin
* R. David Murray [2015-08-27 15:00:40 -0400]: > It is possible to create a "virtual" X on an otherwise headless linux > system, but I've never tried to do it myself. If someone comes up > with a recipe we could add it to the devguide chapter on running > a buildbot. It's usually as easy as inst

Re: [Python-Dev] Testing tkinter on Linux

2015-08-27 Thread R. David Murray
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:24:36 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 8/27/2015 12:35 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > >> None of the linux buildbots run with X enabled. Consequently none of the > >> tkinter (or tkinter user) gui tests are run on Linux.

Re: [Python-Dev] Testing tkinter on Linux

2015-08-27 Thread Terry Reedy
On 8/27/2015 12:35 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: None of the linux buildbots run with X enabled. Consequently none of the tkinter (or tkinter user) gui tests are run on Linux. It was thus pointed out to me, during discussion of using ttk widgets

Re: [Python-Dev] Testing tkinter on Linux

2015-08-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > None of the linux buildbots run with X enabled. Consequently none of the > tkinter (or tkinter user) gui tests are run on Linux. It was thus pointed > out to me, during discussion of using ttk widgets in Idle, that we do not > really know if