I am able to get Selenium to run when the display is hidden, as in
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))
display.start()
However, I can't get a visible display when I use this
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
display = Display(visible=1, size=(800, 600))
display.start()
I get an error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/sjones345/Selenium/test_selenium.py", line 6, in <module>
display = Display(visible=1, size=(800, 600))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyvirtualdisplay/display.py", line 33, in __init__
self._obj = self.display_class(
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyvirtualdisplay/display.py", line 50, in display_class
cls.check_installed()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyvirtualdisplay/xephyr.py", line 29, in check_installed
ubuntu_package=PACKAGE).check_installed()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/easyprocess/__init__.py", line 209, in check_installed
raise EasyProcessCheckInstalledError(self)
easyprocess.EasyProcessCheckInstalledError: cmd=['Xephyr', '-help']
OSError=[Errno 2] No such file or directory
Program install error!
You can install it in terminal:
sudo apt-get install xephyr
When I go to sudo install
xephyr as the error suggests, I get
20:36 ~ $ sudo apt-get install xephyr
sudo: unknown user: root
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
I am just trying PythonAnywhere out for the first time at the "Beginner" level so I'm wondering if that is why I can't install or if it's something else.
Any help? Thanks!