Display Setup Handbook: Style
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### 7. Style

The Style dialog allows three Desktop style choices to be made:

- Draw widgets in the style of Windows 95. This allows This allows you to switch between a Motif look or a Windows 95 look for the K Desktop Environment. For example, the widget that lets these choices be made is a button in Motif style, and a check box in Windows 95 style.
- Menubar on top of the screen in the style of MacOS. This selection emulates the MacOS style by placing a menubar for the currently-active application at the top of the screen.
- Apply fonts and colors to non-KDE apps. Selecting this option allows the "look and feel" of KDE applications (mainly fonts and colors) to also be applied to certain non-KDE X11 applications such as Emacs and XEmacs. This feature uses `krdb`, KDE's interface to `xrdb`, the X-resources database. If this causes you to experience problems with your non-KDE applications, you should make sure that the Desktop Font settings (especially the Fixed font for emacs) are correctly set (you may need to change these settings at least once so entries in your `~/.kderc` file are generated). Changes you make, including de-activating this selection, may not take effect until KDE is restarted.

To restore the KDE default configuration, click on the Default button at the bottom of the screen. Click on Apply or OK to activate your choice.

Note: Pressing Ok or Apply applies changes made in all of the display setup modules.

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