[Xquartz-dev] quartz-wm appearence

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Sep 15, 2011, at 7:02 AM, doh123 wrote:

> A quick question…
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> What (or where in the code) determines what quartz-wm window decorations look like.  Meaning… where does it determine if it looks like 10.5, or 10.6 or 10.7?

That's in the libXplugin internals.  On 10.6 and later, it is using the HITheme APIs from Carbon's HIToolbox.

> I ask because in Wineskin, I use primarily a 10.5 build, and running it on 10.6 or 10.7, the windows still look like 10.5 windows.  

On 10.5, you should notice that the windows look like 10.4 windows.

> I thought it was just something to do with quartz-wm, but even using /usr/bin/quartz-wm on a 10.7 machine, the windows still look like 10.5.  

Can you provide a screenshot comparing an xterm window to Terminal.app?

> If I knew where specifically or in what library it is set, I can modify the code to work differently on different OS versions… or at least link to the correct libraries on the machine if they are available.



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