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PowerShell Desktop Variable

June 10, 2023 by Tarik

You can use the Environment.GetFolderPath() method to get the full path to special folders: $DesktopPath = [System.Environment]::GetFolderPath([System.Environment+SpecialFolder]::Desktop) This can be shortened to: $DesktopPath = [Environment]::GetFolderPath(“Desktop”) You can also get the “AllUsers” shared desktop folder (if the shortcut file is shared among all users): [Environment]::GetFolderPath(“CommonDesktopDirectory”) Check out the full list of values for the SpecialFolder Enum.

How to get Desktop location?

June 10, 2023 by Tarik

On Unix or Linux: import os desktop = os.path.join(os.path.join(os.path.expanduser(‘~’)), ‘Desktop’) on Windows: import os desktop = os.path.join(os.path.join(os.environ[‘USERPROFILE’]), ‘Desktop’) and to add in your command: shutil.copy(txtName, desktop)

Cross-platform desktop notifier in Python

May 28, 2023 by Tarik

Here’s a desktop notifier I wrote a few years ago using wxPython – it behaves identically across Windows and Linux and should also run on OSX. It contains a threaded event loop that can be used to animate a notification window containing an icon and message that can be clicked on. It probably needs a … Read more

What’s the difference between SpecialFolder.Desktop and SpecialFolder.DesktopDirectory?

May 13, 2023 by Tarik

Answer to original question A directory is a location in the file system. A folder is a location in the shell namespace. A directory is a kind of folder. A virtual folder is not necessarily backed by a directory. For example consider libraries or search folders. The user’s desktop directory is a location in the … Read more

How can I change my desktop background with python?

May 5, 2023 by Tarik

On Windows with python2.5 or higher, use ctypes to load user32.dll and call SystemParametersInfo() with SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER action. For example: import ctypes SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER = 20 ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoA(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 0, “image.jpg” , 0)

Windows shortcut to run a Git Bash script

April 11, 2023 by Tarik

Git bash is already a batch file with content similar to this : C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe /c “”C:\Git\bin\sh.exe” –login -i” If you want run (and leave running) a shell script in the context of the shell, specify it at the command line. The trick is that when the script file name is interpreted, it uses the Windows … Read more

How to create a simple desktop environment?

April 2, 2023 by Tarik

This is no simple feat but by no means impossible. Other people have done it, there are plenty of DE or WM out there so there is no reason that you, with patient, skill and lots coffee couldn’t do something great. Learn the difference between DE and WM. Test different DE and WM, maybe one … Read more

How to get the Desktop path in java

March 18, 2023 by Tarik

I use a french version of Windows and with it the instruction: System.getProperty(“user.home”) + “/Desktop”; works fine for me.

What’s the environment variable for the path to the desktop?

February 21, 2023 by Tarik

To be safe, you should use the proper APIs in Powershell (or VBScript) Using PowerShell: [Environment]::GetFolderPath(“Desktop”) Copy something using Powershell: Copy-Item $home\*.txt ([Environment]::GetFolderPath(“Desktop”)) Here is a VBScript-example to get the desktop path: dim WSHShell, desktop, pathstring, objFSO set objFSO=CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) Set WSHshell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) desktop = WSHShell.SpecialFolders(“Desktop”) pathstring = objFSO.GetAbsolutePathName(desktop) WScript.Echo pathstring

Create popup “toaster” notifications in Windows with .NET

February 21, 2023 by Tarik

WPF makes this absolutely trivial: It would proably take ten minutes or less. Here are the steps: Create a Window, set AllowsTransparency=”true” and add a Grid to it Set the Grid’s RenderTransform to a ScaleTransform with origin of 0,1 Create an animation on the grid that animates the ScaleX 0 to 1 then later animates … Read more