# Hide window?

**URL:** <https://discourse.glfw.org/t/hide-window/291>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [February 23, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/hide-window/291 "2011-02-23T21:45:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/glfw/original/1X/b8cdefe6b61b8d5aee6c43b2c56e9cf5eabecfe4.svg) [@system](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/hide-window/291/1 "2011-02-23T21:45:30Z")

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**anonymous** wrote on [Wednesday, February 23, 2011](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/181d7ed2/#a899):

Hi,

Is it possible to hide the glfw window?

I want to do this so I can ‘centre’ the window on the desktop without it  
appearing briefly at the top/left.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/glfw/original/1X/b8cdefe6b61b8d5aee6c43b2c56e9cf5eabecfe4.svg) [@system](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/hide-window/291/2 "2011-03-01T03:59:33Z")

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**[pyrce007](https://sourceforge.net/u/pyrce007/)** wrote on [Tuesday, March 01, 2011](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/181d7ed2/#7d4a):

This is a feature that is listed under “planned” for version 3.0. Otherwise I  
think you would need to take the trunk code for 2.7 and hack it up to do what  
you want.