Making Tkinter windows show up in the taskbar

I make no claim about this being the 'correct' way to do it, but see if this works for you:

try:    from tkinter import *except ImportError:    from Tkinter import *class NewRoot(Tk):        def __init__(self):        Tk.__init__(self)        self.attributes('-alpha', 0.0)class MyMain(Toplevel):    def __init__(self, master):        Toplevel.__init__(self, master)        self.overrideredirect(1)        self.attributes('-topmost', 1)        self.geometry('+100+100')        self.bind('<ButtonRelease-3>', self.on_close)  #right-click to get out    def on_close(self, event):        self.master.destroy()if __name__ == '__main__':    root = NewRoot()    root.lower()    root.iconify()    root.title('Spam 2.0')    app = MyMain(root)    app.mainloop()

You could add a toplevel window under the root object, make root invisible and then handle the icon events to hide or show the toplevel window.

root = tkinter.Tk()top = tkinter.Toplevel(root)top.overrideredirect(1) #removes border but undesirably from taskbar too (usually for non toplevel windows)root.attributes("-alpha",0.0)#toplevel follows root taskbar events (minimize, restore)def onRootIconify(event): top.withdraw()root.bind("<Unmap>", onRootIconify)def onRootDeiconify(event): top.deiconify()root.bind("<Map>", onRootDeiconify)window = tkinter.Frame(master=top)window.mainloop()