How to show a fullscreen image from the command line interface without a window manager using Python

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I have a python script that, when executed, wait's until it gets input from the user. I now want to know if it is posible to keep showing an image fullscreen until the user has given the input? I have searched for a solution but all i can find are tools that window managers to show the picture, but this is not installed. It'll probably only run on Debian.

I'm kind of searching for the same idea as omxplayer, but instead of movies it has to display pictures.

Try using Xlib to draw directly on root window, or even XServer is also not installed? — Anurag Uniyal, Oct 25 '12 at 19:06
Pygame is probably your best bet. See: [Frame buffer module of python](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11608454/frame-buffer-module-of-python). — Pedro Romano, Oct 25 '12 at 19:11
@AnuragUniyal nope, XServer is not installed. Tried a view packages (imagemagick and one i don't remember) and they both said they needed XServer running. — MegaWubs, Oct 26 '12 at 06:16
@PedroRomano: maybe you want to add your comment as an answer? — Kijewski, Oct 27 '12 at 02:01

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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Using pygame is probably the easiest way of displaying an image fullscreen on the Linux framebuffer or on the X Windows root window (i.e. without a window manager).

The answers to the question Frame buffer module of python have all the details on how to achieve this.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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