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It looks like I have the same front door with window. (Mine seems to be some sort of foam core metal door, with plastic window frames.)

I unscrewed the interior window frame (thick, 2" screws) and pulled off the frame in order to paint. The frame stuck a little bit, but wasn't glued on from the interior. As others have guessed, it's a single piece of glass underneath. So whatever you choose to do, it'll be easier with a single piece of glass.

Incidentally, the exterior part of the same frame was indeed glued onto the window, so that would be more difficult to pull off. When painting the exterior part of the door, I spent a long time putting tiny pieces of painter's tape around the curves of the window. Such a pain! Glad I figured out that was unnecessary for the interior part of the door.

Good luck.

For one year I lived in a first-floor apartment next to a dumpster. The smell wasn't bad - what was bad was the unnerving presence of homeless men at all hours going through the dumpster. I could usually hear them coming because they rolled up with grocery shopping carts. There were constantly men - many likely mentally ill - outside my window. It made me uncomfortable.

And a stack of furniture and mattresses next to the dumpster caught fire (or was it arson?), leading to a terrifying night as my windows imploded and blinds melted.