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I'm trying to write a Pygame window manager. I've written a lot of things in pygame before so I can make the program, but I realized I have no idea how to run an application, inside that pygame application. I want to make something similar to gnome 2 but simpler and in pygame. Is there a way to run something inside pygame?

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  • Because C is gibberish... – user2929631 Oct 28 '13 at 20:27
  • Python can run external program. see: http://stackoverflow.com/a/92395/1832058 – furas Oct 28 '13 at 20:39
  • Could you explain what *run something inside pygame* means in this context? pygame is just a python library. Also, I don't know how a pygame window manager should work since pygame is based on SDL and SDL needs a running window manager itself (if not run on a framebuffer or something). – sloth Oct 29 '13 at 08:37
  • I've found something that will let me run a full screen pygame application from outside of X. I'm curious as to how running an application inside of the window manager works in regular C window managers.... Also? what is the difference (if any) between a window manager and a desktop environment? – user2929631 Oct 29 '13 at 15:40
  • @furas That will open an application but I want the application to run within the pygame application just like in regular window managers – user2929631 Oct 29 '13 at 21:40
  • An instance of pygame currently only handles a single window. So the main "display" would have to be a pygame window. I guess that's do-able. Especially if you start with something simple like a console / terminal emulator windows. – Kingsley Jan 14 '19 at 00:09

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can you do something with the import function? Something like this:

import pygame, application
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