zhs2010 / custom-electron-titlebar

Custom electon title bar inpire on VS Code title bar

Custom Electron Titlebar

This project is a typescript library for electron that allows you to configure a fully customizable title bar.

📦 Installing

You can install this package with npm.

npm install custom-electron-titlebar

🛠️ Usage

The implementation is done as follows:

In the main application file (main.js or .ts)

import { setupTitlebar, attachTitlebarToWindow } from "custom-electron-titlebar/main";

// setup the titlebar main process
setupTitlebar();

function createWindow() {
  // Create the browser window.
  const mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    titleBarStyle: 'hidden',
    //frame: false, // needed if process.versions.electron < 14
    webPreferences: {
      sandbox: false,
      preload: path.join(__dirname, 'preload.js')
    }
  });
  
  ...

  // attach fullscreen(f11 and not 'maximized') && focus listeners
  attachTitlebarToWindow(mainWindow);
}

In the preload file (preload.js or .ts)

import { Titlebar } from "custom-electron-titlebar";

window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
  // Title bar implemenation
  new Titlebar();
});

To see the options you can include in the Title Bar constructor, such as color of elements, icons, menu position, and much more, and the methods you can use, go to the wiki

💰 Support

If you want to support my development, you can do so by donating through Buy me a coffee or Patreon

✅ License

This project is under the MIT license.