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Re: [pygame] How to use the current Desktop Wallpaper as pygame background

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From: Will McGugan <will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 16:58:05 +0100
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Horst JENS wrote:

Please point me to solutions/code snippets because i doubt that i'm the
first with this question:
How to use the current Desktop Wallpaper as a background graphic for
pygame ?
Do i have to check wich OS/variant the user is running and then locate
the current Desktop Wallpaper file in the users file system ?
Like Linux/Gnome, Linux/KDE, Windows98, WinXP, MacOSX etc?
or is there an elegant solution that works with every OS/Variant ?
I don't care if i get the Desktop Wallpaper or a Screenshot of the Desktop with all the Icons on it... I want to make an action game where the user feel that he has to defend "his" very own Desktop.

PIL has a ImageGrab modules that can grab the current desktop and return an image. Alas, the documentation says it is Windows only.

Will

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