Rik
Hemsley
2002-10-16
3.1
KDE
KControl
kwin
window
border
theme
style

## Window Decoration

### General

This module allows you to select a style for the borders around windows.

Each style has a different look, but also a different feel. Some have (sometimes invisible) 'resize' borders all around the edge, which make resizing easier but moving more difficult. Some have no borders on certain edges. One (BII) even has a dynamically sized and positioned title element.

You are encouraged to experiment with the different styles until you find one which best suits your pattern of work.

Apart from choosing the window decoration itself, you can choose here two further options: If there should be a tooltip, if you hover your mouse over a window button, and if the window decoration should attempt to use a custom set button order.

The tooltips can be quite useful if you have set a custom button order, and then changed to an unfamiliar window decoration.

### Buttons

This page has instructions directly on it - just drag around the buttons until you have the order that makes you comfortable.

Not all the window decorations are able to comply with your custom set button order. The ones that cannot are being converted, but at the time of this release they have not been all been changed.

### Configure

If there are any configurable options for the theme you chose on the first page, they will show up here.

In particular, if you chose to use the IceWM theme, you can choose here which of the many IceWM themes to use. The IceWM theme has instructions on the page as to where you should copy the theme files, and once this is done, you can simply select the theme you want to use.

### Section Author

This section written by Rik Hemsley rik@kde.org

Updated by Lauri Watts lauri@kde.org