Andrew Miller [email protected]

If you need an OpenGL context for offscreen rendering, and don't want to create a Wx or GTK window, this is the easiest way to do it.

Even on a headless machine (like a virtualbox), you can install xvfb-run and use it with this package.

Normal cautions about OpenGL still apply, play it safe and do your OpenGL things on the system main thread.

Requirements: libx11-dev Cython

Usage: import glxcontext from OpenGL.GL import glGetString, GL_VERSION

glxcontext.makecurrent() print glGetString(GL_VERSION)

Now you can use OpenGL functions, for example creating an offscreen buffer

See tests/test_offscreen.py