Can I change the title bar in Tkinter?

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Yes it’s possible. You can use the overrideredirect() method on the root window to kill the title bar and the default geometry settings. After that, you need to rebuild all those methods from scratch to set it back up like you want. Here’s a small working example with minimal functionality:

root = Tk()

def move_window(event):
    root.geometry('+{0}+{1}'.format(event.x_root, event.y_root))

root.overrideredirect(True) # turns off title bar, geometry
root.geometry('400x100+200+200') # set new geometry

# make a frame for the title bar
title_bar = Frame(root, bg='white', relief="raised", bd=2)

# put a close button on the title bar
close_button = Button(title_bar, text="X", command=root.destroy)

# a canvas for the main area of the window
window = Canvas(root, bg='black')

# pack the widgets
title_bar.pack(expand=1, fill=X)
close_button.pack(side=RIGHT)
window.pack(expand=1, fill=BOTH)

# bind title bar motion to the move window function
title_bar.bind('<B1-Motion>', move_window)

root.mainloop()

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