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pyvirtualdisplay

Python wrapper for Xvfb, Xephyr and Xvnc
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pyvirtualdisplay has 2.1M monthly downloads and 781 GitHub stars. Version 3.0, first published in 2011.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2022.

It is used by 52 tracked packages, including pytest-xvfb, botasaurus-driver and blobtoolkit.

Downloads
Day
67.5K
Week
416.6K
Month
2.1M
Stars
781
Forks
78
Issues
16
Version
3.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
59
Adoption
60
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
975 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,072,065
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
• At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,072,065
Stars
781
Stars per 1k downloads
0.38
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
59,518
Month daily avg
69,069
Momentum
-13.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
• Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
BSD
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1604 days ago
Total releases
27
Releases/year
1.8
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
• Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
11
Monthly downloads
2,072,065
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
38
 
Issue Burden
20.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
629d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 49.3K
Windows 1.0K
macOS 215

Python Versions

3.8
31.5% 13.9K
3.11
27.4% 12.1K
3.12
17.0% 7.5K
3.10
13.8% 6.1K
3.13
10.4% 4.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
44.7K
2. SG SG
1.1K
3. DE DE
763
4. IN IN
541
5. CN CN
430
6. IE IE
369
7. AU AU
368
8. NO NO
277
9. GB GB
211
10. JP JP
206

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
February 11, 2011
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
3.0
Total Releases
27
Contributors
11
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
ponty
Python Versions
3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
Xvfb Xephyr X wrapper
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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