Get Information of Application Windows in Python

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Tips¶

PyGetWindow does not support Linux currently.

Installation¶

pip3 install pyobjc-framework-quartz pygetwindow

import pygetwindow as pygw

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NotImplementedError                       Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-d13e25ae8407> in <module>
----> 1 import pygetwindow as pygw

~/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pygetwindow/__init__.py in <module>
    346 else:
    347     raise NotImplementedError(
--> 348         "PyGetWindow currently does not support Linux. If you have Xlib knowledge, please contribute! https://github.com/asweigart/pygetwindow"
    349     )

NotImplementedError: PyGetWindow currently does not support Linux. If you have Xlib knowledge, please contribute! https://github.com/asweigart/pygetwindow

PyGetWindow.getAllTitles¶

PyGetWindow.getWindowGeometry¶

Get the geometry information (x, y, w, h) of a window, where (x, y) is the coordinate of the upper-left pixle of the window and w and h are the width and height of the window. The bounding box of the window can be calculated as (x, y, x + w, y + h).

PyGetWindow.getActiveWindow¶

PyGetWindow.getWindowsAt¶

PyGetWindow.isMinimized¶

pyGetWindow.isVisible¶

pyGetWindow.pointInRect¶

pyGetWindow.activate¶

References¶

https://github.com/asweigart/PyGetWindow

https://github.com/ronaldoussoren/pyobjc/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7142342/get-window-position-size-with-python