hide window from MS windows taskbar

Question

Using pyGtk I created a window without decoration. The Window is hidden from task bar and top of all windows. On linux it works fine, but on MS Windows window sometimes it h

Answer 1

Win32 solution provided in the other answer is not very easy and it does not play well with the GtkWindow::show method. A simple solution now in Gtk3 is:

win->set_type_hint(Gdk::WindowTypeHint::WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_UTILITY); //This works
win->set_skip_taskbar_hint(); //This does not guarantee to work