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Khloe
Khloe

Reputation: 157

Change the active Window

I'm looking for a way to set the active window. The only solutions I found are outdated. They included modules like pywinauto but its focus() function doesn't work.

I need something that quickly switches/makes another window active.

I tried the code below, but it doesn't work as it says object has no attribute 'focus'

import pygetwindow as gw

win = gw.getWindowsWithTitle('Photoshop')[0]
win.focus()

I am using Windows 8

Upvotes: 5

Views: 18809

Answers (2)

zx485
zx485

Reputation: 29022

Because the accepted answer is only for Windows, here is a Linux solution for most major distributions:

  1. Install PyWinCtl and the dependency tkinter

    sudo apt install python3-tk
pip install PyWinCtl

  2. Change the import in the example code from above

    import pywinctl as gw
win = gw.getWindowsWithTitle('Signal')[0]
win.activate()

Upvotes: 3

import random
import random

Reputation: 3245

I think the object method you're after is activate:

>>> help(win.activate)
Help on method activate in module 
pygetwindow._pygetwindow_win:

activate() method of 
pygetwindow._pygetwindow_win.Win32Window instance
    Activate this window and make it the foreground window.

So changing your code as follows should work.

import pygetwindow as gw

win = gw.getWindowsWithTitle('Photoshop')[0]
win.activate()

Upvotes: 4

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