kar98kar/pyqt-frameless-window

A cross-platform frameless window based on pyqt5, support Win32, X11, Wayland and macOS.

PyQt-Frameless-Window

A cross platform frameless window based on pyqt5, support Win32, X11, Wayland and macOS.

Features

• Move
• Stretching
• Window animation
• Window shadow
• Win10 acrylic blur
• Win11 mica blur
• Win7 Aero blur

Examples

• Normal frameless window
• Acrylic frameless window

Requirements

Platform	Requirement	Package Version in examples
Win32	pywin32	227
Unix	xcffib	0.11.1

Notes

1. FramelessWindow provides a default custom title bar. If you don't like it, just rewrite it;
2. The window using the acrylic effect may be stuck when dragging for some Win10 versions. See the blog for solution.

See Also

Here are some projects that use PyQt-Frameless-Window:

• zhiyiYo/Groove: A cross-platform music player based on PyQt5
• zhiyiYo/Alpha-Gobang-Zero: A gobang robot based on reinforcement learning
• tonquer/picacg-qt: PicACG PC Client

Reference

• wangwenx190/framelesshelper: Frameless windows for Qt Widgets and Qt Quick applications. Support Win32, X11, Wayland and macOS
• libxcb: Basic Graphics Programming With The XCB Library

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 Zhengzhi Huang

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