Re: Dark mode on Windows

[Po Lu]

Vince Salvino <salvino@coderedcorp.com> writes:

> This is not a feature of emacs, rather it is a specific feature of
> Windows which is being supported (e.g. the window manager "chrome"
> around GUI emacs). Other operating systems have their own window
> managers, which actually are user-controllable, and would not require
> such a kludge in emacs :)

But in that case, the decorations can't be controlled on a per-frame
basis.  This behaviour is desirable and could potentially drive people
to use proprietary operating systems.

> I have outlined ideas for this in the README.md in my fork. It would
> probably be possible to create a separate build profile, similar to NT
> vs Cygwin, etc. That is a bit beyond my skills, and I have no way of
> testing those systems.

If you find a solution, I can help test on Windows 9x.  But first, is
there any reason `DwmSetWindowAttribute' can't be dynamically loaded,
like many other functions are on MS-Windows?