'Hiding pygame display

Is there any way to hide the screen of 'pygame.display' and to make it visible afterwards without calling 'pygame.display.quit()'?

python pygame

Solution 1:^[1]

import os
os.environ["SDL_VIDEODRIVER"] = "dummy"

would be enough. See:

http://www.pygame.org/wiki/HeadlessNoWindowsNeeded
https://github.com/ntasfi/PyGame-Learning-Environment/issues/26#issuecomment-330440199

Solution 2:^[2]

If you dont need to actually make the screen invisible how about:

I use this:

        screen = pygame.display.set_mode((1280,1024), pygame.FULLSCREEN) 

        #Run my game

        screen = pygame.display.set_mode((200,200))
        pygame.display.flip()

        call('I CALL AN EXTERNAL PROGRAM HERE')

        screen = pygame.display.set_mode((1280,1024), pygame.FULLSCREEN)
        pygame.display.flip()

to exit from fullscreen so that my second app can be seen. Its handy because it will wait for the second app to close before returning to fullscreen.

Solution 3:^[3]

You can use pygame.SHOWN and pygame.HIDDEN in set_mode

Hiding the display:

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600), flags=pygame.HIDDEN)

Showing the display:

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600), flags=pygame.SHOWN)

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