How do I get monitor resolution in Python?

Question

What is the simplest way to get monitor resolution (preferably in a tuple)?

Answer 1

Another version using xrandr:

import re
from subprocess import run, PIPE

output = run(['xrandr'], stdout=PIPE).stdout.decode()
result = re.search(r'current (\d+) x (\d+)', output)
width, height = map(int, result.groups()) if result else (800, 600)

Answer 2

If you're using wxWindows, you can simply do:

import wx

app = wx.App(False) # the wx.App object must be created first.    
print(wx.GetDisplaySize())  # returns a tuple

Answer 3

In case you have PyQt4 installed, try the following code:

from PyQt4 import QtGui
import sys

MyApp = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
V = MyApp.desktop().screenGeometry()
h = V.height()
w = V.width()
print("The screen resolution (width X height) is the following:")
print(str(w) + "X" + str(h))

For PyQt5, the following will work:

from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
import sys

MyApp = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
V = MyApp.desktop().screenGeometry()
h = V.height()
w = V.width()
print("The screen resolution (width X height) is the following:")
print(str(w) + "X" + str(h))

Answer 4

You could use PyMouse. To get the screen size just use the screen_size() attribute:

from pymouse import PyMouse
m = PyMouse()
a = m.screen_size()

a will return a tuple, (X, Y), where X is the horizontal position and Y is the vertical position.

Link to function in documentation.

Answer 5

A cross platform and easy way to do this is by using TKinter that comes with nearly all the python versions so you don't have to install anything:

import tkinter
root = tkinter.Tk()
root.withdraw()
WIDTH, HEIGHT = root.winfo_screenwidth(), root.winfo_screenheight()

Answer 6

Try pyautogui:

import pyautogui
resolution = pyautogui.size()
print(resolution)