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PyGTK is the Python binding for the GTK+ widget library.

PyGTK lets you easily create programs with a graphical user interface using the Python programming language and the GTK+ library. GTK+ provides all kinds of visual elements and utilities, and is the official toolkit of the GNOME Desktop.

PyGTK applications are multiplatform and able to run, unmodified, on Linux, Windows, MacOS X and other platforms.

For more information, see the Wikipedia page of PyGTK.

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GTK and PYGTK difference

many programmers import both gtk and pygtk in this way: import gtk import pygtk I have created a simple program using only gtk and it works: import gtk window = gtk.Window() window.set_size_request(800,…
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Modern GUI programming in Python 3.3

I am putting together a few programs, and it's about time to start making GUI's for some of them. The code is currently written in Python 3.3. I have researched a few GUI's for Python, namely Tkinter, wxPython and PyGTK. Everything I am finding…
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How to install poppler in ubuntu 15.04?

Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base. I have already downloaded the tar.xz file from the official site http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ But I do not know what to do with this file Is there any command to install or…
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Enable or disable gtk.Button in PyGTK

How can I set a gtk.Button enabled or disabled in PyGTK?
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How can I determine the display idle time from Python in Windows, Linux, and MacOS?

I would like to know how long it's been since the user last hit a key or moved the mouse - not just in my application, but on the whole "computer" (i.e. display), in order to guess whether they're still at the computer and able to observe…
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How to get value from selected item in treeview in PyGTK?

I'm learning PyGtk. I have a simple treeview with 1 column, I get items for that treeview from list. How to get value of selected item in treeview?
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How to make GtkTextView look like GtkEntry?

Or "How to add a visible (thin) border to GtkTextView"? Is it ever possible? Thank you in advance.
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authentication in python script to run as root

I am doing a project in Linux at system level in Python. So that, I want to know that if i am running my code as a normal user and if i am accessing system files then it should have root permissions for it, then how can i prompt for root password…
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Python AppIndicator bindings -> howto check if the menu is open?

Here is a minimal example of an AppIndicator: #!/usr/bin/python import gobject import gtk import appindicator if __name__ == "__main__": ind = appindicator.Indicator("example-simple-client", "gtk-execute",…
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I'm completly confused with PyObject, PyGTK and GNOME 3 as well

I installed Fedora 15 to use Python3 and GObject to develop a desktop-application, because PyGTK looks outdated: PyGTK 2.24.0 released Friday 01 April 2011 by Rafael Villar Burke PyGTK 2.24.0 has been released. This is a stable release…
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ImportError: No module named gi.repository Mac OS X

I am installing virt-manager0.10.0 on Mac OS X First I installed python,libvirt, gtk+3, pygtk, and other dependencies with homebrew But when I run virt-manager I got this error from gi.repository import GObject ImportError: No module named…
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How to have drag-and-drop and sorted GtkTreeView in GTK3?

I am porting liblarch, a library for handling directed acyclic graphs, from PyGTK (GTK2) to PyGObject introspection (GTK3). I ran into the problem with GtkTreeView. The app using liblarch needs to sort GtkTreeView by a column but in the same time,…
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Python - Separate program logic and GUI code?

What would be the best way of separating program logic to the GUI code? I wanted different GUI (GTK, KDE, CLI) code using the same program logic. I was thinking of using different python module (winecellar-common, winecellar-gtk, winecellar-cli) not…
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Creating GUI with Python in Linux

Quick question. I'm using Linux and I want to try making a GUI with Python. I've heard about something like Qt, GTK+ and PyGTK but I don't know what they are exactly and what the difference between them is. Is there any difference on how they work…
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How to draw any GTK widget on top of Cairo surface

I would like to save the looks of a GTK window, and all the buttons and other widgets it contains to a PNG or PDF file. Cairo supports drawing on such surfaces. Could I somehow ask a GTK widget to draw itself on Cairo surface? A code sample would…
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