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PySide2-Frameless-Window

A cross-platform frameless window based on PySide2

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Features

Move
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 PySide2-Frameless-Window

Or clone the repo:

git clone -b Pyside2 https://github.com/zhiyiYo/PyQt-Frameless-Window.git
python setup.py install

Requirements

Platform	Requirement
Win32	pywin32
MacOS	pyobjc

Usage

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

import sys

from PySide2.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 PySide2-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 PyQt5, PyQt6 or PySide6, you can download the code in PyQt5 or PyQt6 or PySide6 branch.

Reference

License

PySide2-Frameless-Window is licensed under LGPLv3.

Metadata

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