10.5: Make Leopard feel more like Tiger
Mar 05, '09 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: Anonymous
Some users find Tiger's appearance more pleasing than Leopard's. If you are one of those users, simply type these commands into Terminal:
$ defaults write -g AppleUseCoreUI -bool NO
$ defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSUseLeopardWindowValues NO
Logout and Log back in again, and Leopard will now look a lot more like Tiger.
[robg adds: I tested these commands, as written, on our iMac. On re-login, about the only real difference I noticed was the highlight color of selected buttons in the toolbar (dark grey in Leopard-look, blue in Tiger-look). Then I noticed that the second command was (I believe) missing a -bool, so I reversed the original commands, and tried again with the added -bool. Bad idea. When I logged in, I had no right-hand menu bar items, and any launched program wouldn't show its windows at all. Fixing this required connecting via SSH to reverse the offending commands. After logging out and back in, all was fine again. So please be careful if you're going to experiment with this hint!]
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