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

[Python-Dev] Testing tkinter on Linux

2015-08-26 Thread Terry Reedy
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 ttk works on the variety of Linux systems (beyond the one