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How to make your Mac OS X Leopard screen corners round again

Thursday, November 8, 2007 · 5:35 pm · 52 Comments

Mac users who miss the rounded corners atop their new Mac OS X Leopard screens can undo Apple’s (misguided?) decision to square them off in Windows-esque fashion.

MacDailyNews Note: Apple Macs have had rounded corners since their inception. Mac OS 7.6, released January 7, 1997, did away with the rounded corners on the bottom (along with the “System” moniker).

“Displaperture,” from developer Many Tricks, brings back rounded screen corners to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Users can decide which corners they wish to be rounded off, choose their radii, and enjoy their Macs the way Macs were meant to be.

Displaperture is a universal binary and free for download (if you like it, the developer accepts donations).

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Macaday

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 6:40 pm · Reply

After what I learned from installing Leopard I’m staying well clear of all these marginal hacks…

I value the solid reliability of my Mac and I won’t have it abused again!
matt

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 6:40 pm · Reply

maybe for CRT displays (eMacs), but I don’t think I want rounded corners on my MacBook’s display…
Dave

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 6:41 pm · Reply

Will this fix the glossy screen issue?

Apple is going square.
tclash

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 6:41 pm · Reply

Jeez, talk about nit picking!. Sheesh!
Jenkem's juices

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 6:47 pm · Reply

My monitors are snappier now!
Jay

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 6:49 pm · Reply

The corners are still slightly rounded. I know mac users are detail oriented but damn, that is a small thing to annoy you.
Optician

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 6:55 pm · Reply

Jay,

Leopard’s corners are not “slightly rounded,” they are exactly square.

Get your eyes checked.
ophy

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 7:03 pm · Reply

it’s the menu bar that is rounded – get a second monitor on and the corners are square anyway (tiger)
Forrest, Forrest Gump

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 7:06 pm · Reply

@Dave:

You can always fix the problem:

Home Depot

FG
@ Optician

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 7:07 pm · Reply

I hope you aren’t referring to programs, windows and the like, ‘cos I count AT LEAST a 3 pixel radii when transitioning from vertical draws to the horizontal in Safari.
Marty

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 7:08 pm · Reply

I thought something was different… Don’t really give a rats ass though.
Toasty!

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 7:10 pm · Reply

To be honest. It’s so slight and not important, I didn’t even notice the corners were squared off. I actually had to look at a system running Tiger to tell the difference. I think this on the top of the “Things gone from Tiger we don’t need nor care about” list.
michael

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 7:12 pm · Reply

whats this about rounded corners? good thing this app came out… now i can get some work done. i keed.
god deluded

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 7:15 pm · Reply

i miss the rounded corners it’s very obvious, i am trying the programme now and its nice to have them back, one of the Macs virtues is the attention to detail, ie nitpicking the square corners are crude and too PC.
Gasser

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 7:43 pm · Reply

Never noticed before, but my PowerBook running 10.3 has round upper corners and square lowers, FWIW.
ApplePi

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 7:46 pm · Reply

unless your screen is round, there’s no reason to round the edges. it looks dumb.
TowerTone

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 8:01 pm · Reply

Guys, don’t you see?
First, they square your corners.
Next, they’ll rape your cows.

It’ll make McHale’s Navy’s Ernest Borgnine look like The Poseidon Adventure’s Ernest Borgnine all over again, only more.
Thorin

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 8:12 pm · Reply

I’ve used basically every version of Mac OS, and never noticed the change until reading this.
ridiculous

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 8:15 pm · Reply

If rounded corners is the biggest problem in your life, I envy you….get over yourselves you F$&#xin;g whiners!!
Upgrade

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 8:16 pm · Reply

How: Buy Vista. With Leopard you get to upgrade to the 5 year old Windows XP look for window corners.
@Thorin

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 8:24 pm · Reply

You aren’t very observant.
Heck

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 8:29 pm · Reply

every window in Tiger has a rounded brushed aluminum frame at the top and squared at the bottom.

Damn, next Apple is going to do away with that.
Just to make Windows guys feel at home in Leopard. Why?

As for the Desktop… rounded corners is well a non-issue for me.
-Diz.

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 8:35 pm · Reply

Really? Rounded Corners? Is *this* what we’re talking about today. WTF is wrong with the world?
Ray

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 9:02 pm · Reply

Pie are not round, PI r squared.

Just my $0.02
Steve

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 9:19 pm · Reply

MacANAL!