How to press the windows key with pynput?

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I am making a program in which I want to use Windows + D combination to navigate to desktop, but I am unable to find a windows key in Key.<Keyname> to do that. How can I do that? If not, is there any other way i should do this instead?

Which OS do you want Windows + D to work on? I'm aware of that working on Linux Ubuntu for instance. Do other OSs support this key sequence to show the desktop too? — Gabriel Staples, Jun 04 '23 at 05:11
I'm still trying to figure this out. I asked a new question: [pynput library not working as expected in Python to press Windows + D key](https://stackoverflow.com/q/76399361/4561887) — Gabriel Staples, Jun 04 '23 at 07:34

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 19 '20 at 14:27

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You may want to try cmd, cmd_l and cmd_r as seen in the pynput documentation.

answered Aug 19 '20 at 14:27

Yeji Ha

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user19564834 · Answer 2 · 2022-10-19T18:34:48.710

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import keyboard
keyboard.press_and_release('windows+d')

To install:

pip install keyboard I dont know how to use pynput and use the keyboard library, sorry

edited Oct 19 '22 at 18:34

answered Oct 19 '22 at 18:32

user19564834

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`raise ImportError('You must be root to use this library on linux.')`. That stinks you have to be root to use this library. And then when I try to import it as root, I get `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'keyboard'`. So...no luck so far. – Gabriel Staples Jun 04 '23 at 07:45
And if I do `sudo pip install keyboard` instead of just `pip install keyboard`, to try to give root access to this library, then run my file with `sudo python3 my_test_file.py`, it still doesn't work. Now I get `IndexError: tuple index out of range` on the `keyboard.press_and_release('windows+d')` line. So, still no luck. – Gabriel Staples Jun 04 '23 at 07:50

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 06 '21 at 23:30

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the Keyname for the Windows Button is cmd_l.

if you want to press it just use it as: variable.press(Key.cmd_l)

answered Jul 06 '21 at 23:30

Antonio

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 24 '23 at 01:18

From my answer here: pynput library not working as expected in Python to press Windows + D key:

This presses Windows (Super) + D:

import time

from pynput.keyboard import Key, Controller


# ========== technique 1 ===========
# From: https://pynput.readthedocs.io/en/latest/keyboard.html
print("Trying technique 1")

keyboard = Controller()
SUPER_KEY = Key.cmd
with keyboard.pressed(SUPER_KEY):
    keyboard.press('d')
    keyboard.release('d')


time.sleep(1.0)


# ========== technique 2 ===========
print("Trying technique 2")

keyboard = Controller()
SUPER_KEY = Key.cmd

keyboard.press(SUPER_KEY)
keyboard.press('d')
keyboard.release('d')
keyboard.release(SUPER_KEY)

Due to a bug in pynput, this won't work in Linux though (ex: Ubuntu 22.04). See my answer in the link above for details, and instructions on using ydotool instead.

How to press the windows key with pynput?

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