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Rohit Karadkar
Rohit Karadkar

Reputation: 852

How to detect key-press combinations in background on linux & windows with python?

how can I detect key-press combinations in background using python for linux and windows ?

for example,

when Ctrl+v is detected execute doThis() in background

when Tab is detected execute doThat() in background

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3771

Answers (3)

Pedro Ilidio
Pedro Ilidio

Reputation: 53

pynput worked the best for me.

Upvotes: 0

Rohit Karadkar
Rohit Karadkar

Reputation: 852

on windows this can be done using pyhook

on ubuntu I did it with help of this pyxhook

Edit: another awesome library for Windows & Linux - keyboard

Upvotes: 2

Ds Arjun
Ds Arjun

Reputation: 459

If you are using python tkinter, having filemenu. then below code might help you.

from Tkinter import *
import sys
import Tkinter

class App(Tkinter.Tk):

    def __init__(self):
        Tkinter.Tk.__init__(self)
        menubar = Tkinter.Menu(self)
        fileMenu = Tkinter.Menu(menubar, tearoff=False)
        menubar.add_cascade(label="File", underline=0, menu=fileMenu)
        fileMenu.add_command(label="doThat", underline=1,
                             command=quit, accelerator="Ctrl+v")
        fileMenu.add_command(label="doThis", underline=1,
                             command=quit, accelerator="Tab")
        self.config(menu=menubar)

        self.bind_all("<Control-v>", self.doThat)
        self.bind_all("<Tab>", self.doThis)

    def doThat(self, event):
        print("Control v is pressed ...")

    def doThis(self, event):
        print("Tab is pressed...")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = App()
    app.mainloop()

Upvotes: 3

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