Custom Electron Titlebar

This is a fork of the custom-electron-titlebar project from that is no longer maintained. It includes the code updates from the original developer that were never released, along with a fix for the os detection bug. The original project is a typescript library for electron that allows you to configure a fully customizable title bar.

[!IMPORTANT]
This project will no longer be maintained, because I am the only one working on it and I have no free time left to review the issues and incorporate new features or update the dependencies to the latest versions.

Thanks to all the contributors and dependents of this library.

📄 Documentation

Standard Title Bar

Bottom Menu Bar

Menu

Custom color

📦 Installing

You can install this package with npm, pnpm or yarn.

npm install custom-electron-titlebar

pnpm add custom-electron-titlebar

yarn add custom-electron-titlebar

🛠️ Usage

The implementation is done as follows:

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

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

// setup the titlebar main process
setupTitlebar();

function createWindow() {
  // Create the browser window.
  const mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    //frame: false, // needed if process.versions.electron < 14
    titleBarStyle: 'hidden',
    /* You can use *titleBarOverlay: true* to use the original Windows controls */
    titleBarOverlay: true,
    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 '@jshafto/custom-electron-titlebar-update'

window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
  // Title bar implementation
  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 💖 Sponsor

📝 Contributors

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the people who have collaborated in the development and advancement of this project. I appreciate your contributions.

✅ License

This project is under the MIT license.