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I want to minimize all open windows and / or show the desktop on a Windows 10 machine from within a python script. I had a look in the win32api, win32con, win32gui but cannot find anything appropriate. Any idea appreciated. Thanks

Spanky
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Pyautogui is a great module for stimulating keyboard clicks and mouse clicks. To install it, try this command in the terminal. pip install PyAutoGUI

Using pyautogui, you can stimulate a virtual click in 2 ways. Choose which one works best for you:

1:

import pyautogui
pyautogui.hotkey('winleft', 'd')

2:

import pyautogui

pyautogui.keyDown('winleft')
pyautogui.press('d')
pyautogui.keyUp('winleft')

Sometimes the first one doesn't work, so if it doesn't, try the second one.

Dharman
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The Pilot Dude
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If you want to use WinApi to implement keyboard emulation, you can use the keybd_event function.

code:

import win32api 

win32api.keybd_event(0x5B, 0, ) # LWIN
win32api.keybd_event(0x44, 0, ) # D
win32api.keybd_event(0x5B, 0, 2) 
win32api.keybd_event(0x44, 0, 2)

Of course, you should probably use SendInput, but it is a bit complicated to use in python.

You can refer to this thread : How to generate keyboard events in Python?

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