Is there any way to use Tkinter with Google Colaboratory?
As Run gym-gazebo on Google Colaboratory says, you need to run a framebuffer server (that will emulate a graphical screen) and create a DISPLAY
envvar pointing to it.
!apt-get install -y xvfb # Install X Virtual Frame Buffer
import os
os.system('Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1600x1200x16 &') # create virtual display with size 1600x1200 and 16 bit color. Color can be changed to 24 or 8
os.environ['DISPLAY']=':1.0' # tell X clients to use our virtual DISPLAY :1.0
However, if you want to interact with the GUI, that's going to be hard, 'cuz Colab doesn't support interactive screens out of the box.
No.
From the intro to google colab:
Colab notebooks execute code on Google's cloud servers
Servers generally don't even have a display. And even if they had, you wouldn't see it.
You will have to run Python on your desktop or laptop to use tkinter
.
Additionally, the colab environment is a form of IPython notebook, which is not really a standard Python environment. I would not recommend trying to run tkinter
programs from an IPython notebook even if you have IPython running locally.