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selenium with python action chains not working

I am trying to send a ALT+ESC command to my selenium chrome-driver to send it to the back of all other windows
This is the relevant code
from selenium.webdriver import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
actions = ActionChains(driver)
actions.send_keys(Keys.LEFT_ALT, Keys.ESCAPE)
actions.perform()
this is not working please help

To press key-combo:
from selenium.webdriver import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
ActionChains(driver).key_down(Keys.LEFT_ALT).send_keys(Keys.ESCAPE).key_up(Keys.LEFT_ALT).perform()
But seems this is an OS-level keys combination for work with windows and this will not work in the selenium context.
Selenium actions applied to web page elements, fire some events inside browser.

ultimately I couldn't find a way to execute a OS command in selenium.
The following code has the same functionality but dose not necessarily run on the browser
from pyautogui import hotkey
hotkey('altleft', 'esc')

Python selenium-webdriver error on send_keys

I am working on the website https://www.pnct.net/ for couple hours already. I still can not search the container on this website by webdriver.
Right now, my problem is I can not send the container number into the Chome. I can click the field by
driver.find_element(By.XPATH,'//*[#id="top-section"]/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/form/div[2]/div/label').click()
but below has error
driver.find_element(By.XPATH,'//*[#id="top-section"]/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/form/div[2]/div/label').send_keys('GAOU6723923')
I had try use find with same error
driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME,'md-textarea purple-textarea valid')

This would work.
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//textarea[#class='md-textarea purple-textarea']").send_keys('GAOU6723923')
Also, please refrain from using such long xpaths in your code. The locators must be as relative as possible.
You may want to check this out and build your code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get("https://www.pnct.net/")
time.sleep(5)
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//input[#value='Select Inquiry Type']").click()
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//span[text() = 'Container Availability by Container']").click()
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//textarea[#class='md-textarea purple-textarea']").send_keys('GAOU6723923')
One thing here: I have used time.sleep to quickly build the code, but ideally it is better if you use WebdriverWait

How can I open a new tab with selenium python?

I'm trying to make a program that opens multiple websites, but I can't get it to press control-t. I've tried multiple solutions, but I can't find one that works. When I do the keydown method, I get an error that says
webdriver has no attribute key_down
and when I try send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 't') it doesn't raise any errors, or do anything. How can I open a new tab?
Here's my try :
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
import time
PATH = "C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
driver.get("https://youtube.com")
search = driver.find_element_by_id("search")
#search.keydown(Keys.CONTROL)
#Webelement.key_down(Keys.CONTROL).send_keys('t').key_up(Keys.CONTROL).perform()
search.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL+'t')
time.sleep(10)

You can do it as
from selenium import webdriver
driver.get("https://www.youtube.com")
search = driver.find_element_by_id("search")
driver.execute_script("window.open('https://www.google.com')")

Here's what you can try :
from selenium import webdriver
webBrowser = webdriver.<>()
# This is first tab
webBrowser.get('<>')
# Second tab
webBrowser.execute_script("window.open('about:blank','secondtab');")
webBrowser.switch_to.window("secondtab")
webBrowser.get('<>')
# Third tab
webBrowser.execute_script("window.open('about:blank','thirdtab');")
webBrowser.switch_to.window("thirdtab")
webBrowser.get('<>')
You can learn more about it from Python – Opening multiple tabs using Selenium
Additionally I think you also have you look here.
However, if you want to run something on multiple windows, then I recommend having multiple instances of webdriver. It is much easier to manage, and is supported (There are workarounds on opening a new tab/window, such as pressing a hotkey that opens a new window, but they aren't supported).

You can use pyautogui to doy to open new tab using ctrl+t :
import pyautogui
pyautogui.keyDown('ctrl')
pyautogui.press('t')
pyautogui.keyUp('ctrl')

driver.switch_to.new_window()
From the webdriver docs
You can pass in 'tab' or 'window'. For ChromeDriver, it opens a tab by default.

python selenium having difficulties with click

Currently using python and trying to have selenium click the "About" on google without using id. When I try to use .click() it does not execute, what is wrong with my code? I have looked at many videos and tutorials and it looks correct.
from selenium import webdriver
from time import sleep
browser = webdriver.Safari()
browser.get('http://google.com')
browser.maximize_window()
elm = browser.find_element_by_link_text('About')
browser.implicitly_wait(5)
elm.click()

I think, you can try using find_element_by_xpath.
First you will copy xpath of about link then you can try like below:
from selenium import webdriver
from time import sleep
browser = webdriver.Safari()
browser.get('http://google.com')
browser.maximize_window()
elm = browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="fsl"]/a[3]')
browser.implicitly_wait(5)
elm.click()

So the issue ended up being safari. For some reason the web driver safari was not allowing me to use .click. I switched to chrome and it worked.

Why are Selenium Chromedriver shortcuts not working?

I am using chromedriver.exe for Chrome version 80, and chrome version 80.0.3987.149. My selenium is up to date. I'm trying to send shortcuts to the browser in python and nothing is working. I've tried ActionChains, and elem.send_keys(). No shortcuts I've used have worked and I can't figure this out.
from selenium import webdriver
import time
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import pyautogui
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'path/to/exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.com')
time.sleep(8)
elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//body")
elem.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL,'t') #Opens a new tab
This doesn't work! I've tried an ActionChain approach and that doesn't work either. Any help would be awesome.