Customize Titlebar With This Tkinter Hack! – Python Tkinter GUI Tutorial 188

In this video I’ll show you a quick hack to customize your Titlebar in Tkinter with Python.

Tkinter doesn’t come with the ability to customize your titlebar built into it. We’ll have to get creative and hack around a bit to create a custom title bar.

We’ll create a titlebar that we can change the color. We’ll also add the ability to drag and drop the app to move it around the screen by clicking and dragging and dropping the titlebar.

Python Code: title.py
(Github Code)

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()
root.title('Codemy.com - Change Titlebar Color')
root.iconbitmap('c:/gui/codemy.ico')
root.geometry("500x300")

# remove title bar
root.overrideredirect(True)

def move_app(e):
	root.geometry(f'+{e.x_root}+{e.y_root}')

def quitter(e):
	root.quit()
	#root.destroy()

# Create Fake Title Bar
title_bar = Frame(root, bg="darkgreen", relief="raised", bd=0)
title_bar.pack(expand=1, fill=X)
# Bind the titlebar
title_bar.bind("", move_app)


# Create Icon Here


# Create title text
title_label = Label(title_bar, text="  My Awesome App!!", bg="darkgreen", fg="white")
title_label.pack(side=LEFT, pady=4)

# Create close button on titlebar
close_label = Label(title_bar, text="  X  ", bg="darkgreen", fg="white", relief="sunken", bd=0)
close_label.pack(side=RIGHT, pady=4)
close_label.bind("", quitter)

my_button = Button(root, text="CLOSE!", font=("Helvetica, 32"), command=root.quit)
my_button.pack(pady=100)



root.mainloop()