How do I get monitor resolution in Python?

Question

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

Answer 1

Taken directly from an answer to this post: How to get the screen size in Tkinter?

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()

screen_width = root.winfo_screenwidth()
screen_height = root.winfo_screenheight()

Answer 2

On Linux we can use subprocess module

import subprocess
cmd = ['xrandr']
cmd2 = ['grep', '*']
p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
p2 = subprocess.Popen(cmd2, stdin=p.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
p.stdout.close()

resolution_string, junk = p2.communicate()
resolution = resolution_string.split()[0]
resolution = resolution.decode("utf-8") 
width = int(resolution.split("x")[0].strip())
heigth = int(resolution.split("x")[1].strip())

Answer 3

A lot of these answers use tkinter to find the screen height/width (resolution), but sometimes it is necessary to know the dpi of your screen cross-platform compatible. This answer is from this link and left as a comment on another post, but it took hours of searching to find. I have not had any issues with it yet, but please let me know if it does not work on your system!

import tkinter
root = tkinter.Tk()
dpi = root.winfo_fpixels('1i')

The documentation for this says:

winfo_fpixels(number)
# Return the number of pixels for the given distance NUMBER (e.g. "3c") as float

A distance number is a digit followed by a unit, so 3c means 3 centimeters, and the function gives the number of pixels on 3 centimeters of the screen (as found here). So to get dpi, we ask the function for the number of pixels in 1 inch of screen ("1i").

Answer 4

For later versions of PyGtk:

import gi
gi.require_version("Gdk", "3.0")
from gi.repository import Gdk

display = Gdk.Display.get_default()
n_monitors = display.get_n_monitors()
print("there are %d monitors" % n_monitors)
for m in range(n_monitors):
  monitor = display.get_monitor(m)
  geometry = monitor.get_geometry()
  print("monitor %d: %d x %d" % (m, geometry.width, geometry.height))

Answer 5

For Linux, you can use this:

import gi
gi.require_version("Gdk", "3.0")
from gi.repository import Gdk

s = Gdk.Screen.get_default()
screen_width = s.get_width()
screen_height = s.get_height()
print(screen_width)
print(screen_height)

Answer 6

Using Linux, the simplest way is to execute bash command

xrandr | grep '*'

and parse its output using regexp.

Also you can do it through PyGame: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread54881.html