If you are looking to include a C++ KWin style client in CVS make sure you follow the following requirements: A) You must follow the current color scheme for all decorations. *No* fixed pixmaps are allowed for the clients. If you wish to draw your decorations use as few shades as possible, then use kpixmap2bitmap in kdegraphics to convert them into individual bitmaps. Once this is done you can draw the bitmaps using a colorgroup with kColorBitmaps. If your client is just a set of pixmaps that doesn't follow any of the options I suggest you make a KWM theme so the user gets the those options to configure the pixmaps and look. Making a plain pixmapped dedicated style makes no sense since it is less configurable than KWM themes and cannot follow client plugin options. B) You must follow at least the color settings in the Options class. Daniel M. Duley mosfet@kde.org