Removing the TK icon on a Tkinter window
How to remove tkinter icon from title bar in it's window
On Windows
Step One:
Create a transparent icon using either an icon editor, or a site like rw-designer. Save it as transparent.ico
.
Step Two:
from tkinter import *
tk = Tk()
tk.iconbitmap(default='transparent.ico')
lab = Label(tk, text='Window with transparent icon.')
lab.pack()
tk.mainloop()
On Unix
Something similar, but using an xbm
icon.
Similar to the accepted answer (with the con of being uglier):
import tkinter
import tempfile
ICON = (b'\x00\x00\x01\x00\x01\x00\x10\x10\x00\x00\x01\x00\x08\x00h\x05\x00\x00'
b'\x16\x00\x00\x00(\x00\x00\x00\x10\x00\x00\x00 \x00\x00\x00\x01\x00'
b'\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00@\x05\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'
b'\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x01') + b'\x00'*1282 + b'\xff'*64
_, ICON_PATH = tempfile.mkstemp()
with open(ICON_PATH, 'wb') as icon_file:
icon_file.write(ICON)
tk = tkinter.Tk()
tk.iconbitmap(default=ICON_PATH)
label = tkinter.Label(tk, text="Window with transparent icon.")
label.pack()
tk.mainloop()
It just creates the file on the fly instead, so you don't have to carry an extra file around. Using the same method, you could also do an '.xbm' icon for Unix.
Edit: The ICON
can be shortened even further thanks to @Magnus Hoff:
import base64, zlib
ICON = zlib.decompress(base64.b64decode('eJxjYGAEQgEBBiDJwZDBy'
'sAgxsDAoAHEQCEGBQaIOAg4sDIgACMUj4JRMApGwQgF/ykEAFXxQRc='))