kivy/doc/sources/guide/environment.rst

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.. _environment:
Controlling the environment
===========================
Many environment variables are available to control the initialization and
behavior of Kivy.
For example, for restricting text rendering to PIL implementation::
$ KIVY_TEXT=pil python main.py
Environment variable can be set before importing kivy::
import os
os.environ['KIVY_TEXT'] = 'pil'
import kivy
Configuration
-------------
KIVY_USE_DEFAULTCONFIG
If this name is found in environ, Kivy will not read the user config file.
KIVY_NO_CONFIG
If set, no configuration file will be read or write, and no user
configuration directory too.
KIVY_NO_FILELOG
If set, logs will be not print on a file
KIVY_NO_CONSOLELOG
If set, logs will be not print on the console
Path control
------------
.. versionadded:: 1.0.7
You can control where the default directory of modules, extensions, and
kivy data is located.
KIVY_DATA_DIR
Location of the Kivy data, default to `<kivy path>/data`
KIVY_EXTS_DIR
Location of the Kivy extensions, default to `<kivy path>/extensions`
KIVY_MODULES_DIR
Location of the Kivy modules, default to `<kivy path>/modules`
Restrict core to specific implementation
----------------------------------------
:mod:`kivy.core` try to select the best implementation available for your
platform. For testing or custom installation, you might want to restrict the
selector to a specific implementation.
KIVY_WINDOW
Implementation to use for creating the Window
Values: pygame, x11, sdl
KIVY_TEXT
Implementation to use for rendering text
Values: pil, pygame
KIVY_VIDEO
Implementation to use for rendering video
Values: gstreamer, pyglet, ffmpeg
KIVY_AUDIO
Implementation to use for playing audio
Values: gstreamer, pygame
KIVY_IMAGE
Implementation to use for reading image
Values: pil, pygame
KIVY_CAMERA
Implementation to use for reading camera
Values: gstreamer, opencv, videocapture
KIVY_SPELLING
Implementation to use for spelling
Values: enchant, osxappkit
KIVY_CLIPBOARD
Implementation to use for clipboard management
Values: pygame, dummy
Metrics
-------
KIVY_DPI
If set, the value will be used for :data:`Metrics.dpi`.
.. versionadded:: 1.4.0
KIVY_METRICS_DENSITY
If set, the value will be used for :data:`Metrics.density`.
.. versionadded:: 1.5.0
KIVY_METRICS_FONTSCALE
If set, the value will be used for :data:`Metrics.fontscale`.
.. versionadded:: 1.5.0