get the list of programs currently running on Windows or Ubuntu

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I want to get the list of programs that shows in the Applications tab of Windows Task Manager(include the application icon and its name) , I wonder which Windows APIs should I use ?

If I want to do the same thing on Ubuntu ,then which Ubuntu APIs should I use ?

Try [psutil](https://code.google.com/p/psutil/) – Igonato Oct 01 '13 at 06:51 — Igonato, Oct 01 '13 at 06:51

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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for Ubuntu you can see this post:

How to get list opened windows in PyGTK or GTK in Ubuntu?

for windows you have the WMI module you can see this post:

I'm trying to get all the processes and applications that are currently running using Python on Windows 7

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answered Oct 01 '13 at 06:53

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '13 at 06:52

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Afaik Qt itself will not allow you to do this, at least it did not in prior versions. To solve this for windows you will have to use win-api EnumProcesses while in linux you could use the /proc filesystem, which holds information about running processes

answered Oct 01 '13 at 06:52

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mine will probably work with c++ not with python only – Sebastian Lange Oct 01 '13 at 06:55

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 01 '13 at 06:59

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You could consider using the psutil library from here or here it provides a cross platform set of tools including ps.

answered Oct 01 '13 at 06:59

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get the list of programs currently running on Windows or Ubuntu

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