Removing minimize/maximize buttons in Tkinter

Question

I have a python program which opens a new windows to display some 'about' information. This window has its own close button, and I have made it non-resizeable. However, the buttons to maximize and minimize it are still there, and I want them gone.

I am using Tkinter, wrapping all the info to display in the Tk class.

The code so far is given below. I know its not pretty, and I plan on expanding the info making it into a class, but I want to get this problem sorted before moving along.

Anyone know how I can govern which of the default buttons are shown by the windows manager?

def showAbout(self):       if self.aboutOpen==0:         self.about=Tk()         self.about.title("About "+ self.programName)          Label(self.about,text="%s: Version 1.0" % self.programName ,foreground='blue').pack()         Label(self.about,text="By Vidar").pack()         self.contact=Label(self.about,text="Contact: [email protected]",font=("Helvetica", 10))         self.contact.pack()         self.closeButton=Button(self.about, text="Close", command = lambda: self.showAbout())         self.closeButton.pack()         self.about.geometry("%dx%d+%d+%d" % (175,\                                         95,\                                         self.myParent.winfo_rootx()+self.myParent.winfo_width()/2-75,\                                         self.myParent.winfo_rooty()+self.myParent.winfo_height()/2-35))          self.about.resizable(0,0)         self.aboutOpen=1         self.about.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", lambda: self.showAbout())         self.closeButton.focus_force()           self.contact.bind('<Leave>', self.contactMouseOver)         self.contact.bind('<Enter>', self.contactMouseOver)         self.contact.bind('<Button-1>', self.mailAuthor)     else:         self.about.destroy()         self.aboutOpen=0  def contactMouseOver(self,event):      if event.type==str(7):         self.contact.config(font=("Helvetica", 10, 'underline'))     elif event.type==str(8):         self.contact.config(font=("Helvetica", 10))  def mailAuthor(self,event):     import webbrowser     webbrowser.open('mailto:[email protected]',new=1) 

Answer 1

In general, what decorations the WM (window manager) decides to display can not be easily dictated by a toolkit like Tkinter. So let me summarize what I know plus what I found:

import Tkinter as tk  root= tk.Tk()  root.title("wm min/max")  # this removes the maximize button root.resizable(0,0)  # # if on MS Windows, this might do the trick, # # but I wouldn't know: # root.attributes(toolwindow=1)  # # for no window manager decorations at all: # root.overrideredirect(1) # # useful for something like a splash screen  root.mainloop() 

There is also the possibility that, for a Toplevel window other than the root one, you can do:

toplevel.transient(1) 

and this will remove the min/max buttons, but it also depends on the window manager. From what I read, the MS Windows WM does remove them.