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PyQt-Frameless-Window

A cross-platform frameless window based on PyQt5

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Features

Moving
Stretching
Window shadow
Window animation
Win11 snap layout
Win10 acrylic blur
Win11 mica blur
Win7 Aero blur
MacOS blur
Disable screen capture

Install

To install use pip:

pip install PyQt5-Frameless-Window

Or clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/zhiyiYo/PyQt-Frameless-Window.git
python setup.py install

Requirements

Platform	Requirement
Win32	pywin32
Linux	xcffib
MacOS	pyobjc

Usage

To use the frameless window, you only need to inherit FramelessWindow or FramelessMainWindow. Here is a minimal example:

import sys

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication
from qframelesswindow import FramelessWindow


class Window(FramelessWindow):

    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super().__init__(parent=parent)
        self.setWindowTitle("PyQt-Frameless-Window")
        self.titleBar.raise_()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    demo = Window()
    demo.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

For more complex requirements, see demo.py and main_window.py.

Examples

Normal frameless window
Acrylic frameless window

Document

Want to know more about PyQt-Frameless-Window? Please read the help document 👈

Notes

FramelessWindow provides a default custom title bar. If you don't like it, just rewrite it as demo.py does.
Moving the acrylic window on Win10 may get stuck. At present, there is no good solution. Maybe you can disable the acrylic effect when moving the window, but I haven't done this in the source code.
Snap layout is not enabled by default. See #56 to learn how to enable it.
If you encounter this problem on Windows:

ImportError: DLL load failed while importing win32api

see my answer on stackoverflow or my blog for the solution.
If you are using PySide2, PySide6 or PyQt6, you can download the code in PySide2, PySide6 or PyQt6 branch.

Support

If this project helps you a lot and you want to support the development and maintenance of this project, feel free to sponsor me via 爱发电 or ko-fi. Your support is highly appreciated 🥰

Reference

License

PyQt-Frameless-Window is licensed under GPLv3.

Release files for PyQt5-Frameless-Window 0.8.2

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Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for PyQt5-Frameless-Window 0.8.2
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