README_unix.md

FramelessHelper (UNIX version)

Screenshots

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Features

• Frameless (of course!).
• Draggable.
• Resizable.
• Cross-platform: Windows, X11, Wayland, macOS (however, it doesn't look good on Windows, so you may want to try FramelessHelperWin instead).

As for the frame shadow and other window features, they mainly depend on your window manager.

Usage

QWidget widget;
FramelessHelper helper;
helper.removeWindowFrame(&widget);
widget.show();

Some details

helper.setHitTestVisibleInChrome(window, widget, true);

IMPORTANT NOTES

• For QDockWidget, it supports set a custom title bar widget officially, no need to use this library, and this library is known to be not working well for QDockWidgets. Please refer to https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qdockwidget.html#setTitleBarWidget for more details.
• Only top level windows (QWindow and QWidget) are supported.

Requirements

Component	Requirement	Additional Information
Qt	>= 5.15	This code uses two functions, startSystemMove and startSystemResize, which are introduced in Qt 5.15
Compiler	>= C++11	MSVC, MinGW, Clang-CL, Intel-CL / GCC, Clang, ICC are all supported

References for developers

• https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qobject.html#installEventFilter
• https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qobject.html#removeEventFilter
• https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qwindow.html#startSystemMove
• https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qwindow.html#startSystemResize

License

MIT License

Copyright (C) 2021 by wangwenx190 (Yuhang Zhao)

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