How to remove minimize button in PySide

Question

How can I remove the minimize button from QMainWindow in Python?

I'm using Python 3.4 with PySide. thanks

Answer 1

You need to utilize setWindowFlags do prevent the minimize and maximize button from appearing. You'll have to set the appropriate flags as well.

In this case, you need to enable CustomizeWindowHint and then disable both WindowMinimizeButtonHint and WindowMaximizeButtonHint (alternatively, you could just disable WindowMinMaxButtonsHint, which handles the previous two flags).

A very simple program demonstrating how this works:

import sys
from PySide import QtGui
from PySide import QtCore

def main():
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    w = QtGui.QWidget()
    w.resize(250, 150)
    w.move(300, 300)
    w.setWindowTitle('Simple')
    w.setWindowFlags(w.windowFlags() & QtCore.Qt.CustomizeWindowHint)
    w.setWindowFlags(w.windowFlags() & ~QtCore.Qt.WindowMinMaxButtonsHint)
    w.show()   
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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Outputs: