# How to make a program windowless/frameless?

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**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Created:** [July 2, 2020, 9:19am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-make-a-program-windowless-frameless/22321 "2020-07-02T09:19:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-make-a-program-windowless-frameless/22321/4 "2022-10-03T15:29:00Z")

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The frame background _can_ have transparency, at least for the `JAVA2D` / “default” renderer in Processing. Here’s a post the question of which shows code for doing so:

> [@Transparent/translucent window (drawing graphics on desktop). How to capture mouse and keyboard?](https://discourse.processing.org/t/transparent-translucent-window-drawing-graphics-on-desktop-how-to-capture-mouse-and-keyboard/1390):
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> Hello forum slight_smile I found a fairly simple way to use processing to draw graphics directly to your screen, to make it seem like your window is transparent or translucent, or that your graphics background has full transparency. The problem though is user input no longer works frowning keyPressed() and mousePressed() don’t get called, and mouseX and Y are always 0. You can use import java.awt.MouseInfo; and MouseInfo.getPointerInfo().getLocation().x to somewhat solve the problem, but…

I had myself used this technique many months ago, and it works nicely! I don’t know if the code in the aforementioned post still works as expected, but feel free to ask me for my old code if it doesn’t.

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