psgshortcut 6.0

psgshortcut

A PySimpleGUI Application

PySimpleGUI Shortcut Tool

Creates Windows shortcuts

Features

• Makes shortcuts for any file
• Shortcuts can be added to your desktop or pin to the taskbar
• Click (or double click) to launch the shortcut
• Enables interacting with Python programs more "Windows-like"

Installation

Using PIP with PyPI

The latest official release of PySimpleGUI products can be found on PyPI. To pip install the demo applications from PyPI, use this command

If you use the command python on your computer to invoke Python (Windows):

python -m pip install --upgrade psgshortcut

If you use the command python3 on your computer to invoke Python (Linux, Mac):

python3 -m pip install --upgrade psgshortcut

Using PIP with GitHub

You can also pip install the PySimpleGUI Applications that are in the PySimpleGUI GitHub account. The GitHub versions have bug fixes and new programs/features that have not yet been released to PyPI. To directly pip install from that repo:

If you use the command python on your computer to invoke Python (Windows):

python -m pip install --upgrade https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/psgshortcut/zipball/main

If you use the command python3 on your computer to invoke Python (Linux, Mac):

python3 -m pip install --upgrade https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/psgshortcut/zipball/main

Usage

Once installed, launch psgshortcut by typing the following in your command line:

psgshortcut

Create a Shortcut To This Program

Use this program to make a shortcut to itself so that you can then put on your desktop or pin to your taskbar or ???

To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open a command window (I promise, it's the last time you'll need to for this program)
2. Type - where psgshortcut
3. Copy the line that where psgshortcut gave you into the first input of the shortcut maker program
4. Run psgshortcut by typing psgshortcut in your command window
5. Right click and choose "File Location"
6. Copy the file location results, but change the extension from .py to .ico and paste into the Icon file input of the shortcut maker
7. Click "Create Shortcut"

These steps will create a shortcut in the same folder as the target file. You can safely move this shortcut file any place you want (like to your desktop). Double-click the shortcut and your program should launch.

Make Shortcuts To Anything

You can not only make shortcuts to Python programs, but you can make shortcuts to EXE and other files. The GUI is self-explanatory. Fill in the inputs, click the Make Shortcut button and you'll find the shortcut in the same folder as the target program.

Important Note - Pinning To Taskbar Requires "Python Command"

If you wish to pin your shortcut to the taskbar, then be sure to fill in the "Python Command" field with the full path to your pythonw.exe file. Without it you'll get "IDLE" as the program that's pinned. You can skip filling in this field if you're going to place the shortcut on your desktop or other location.

License & Copyright

Copyright 2023-2026 PySimpleGUI.

Licensed under LGPL3.

Contributing

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