Tech. Note 4: Look And Feel selection

Guiffy by default uses the native System Look And Feel. If you prefer another LAF (Look And Feel), perhaps you'd like to use the Windows LAF on all platforms, the LAF can be selected in Guiffy's command line. Also, on many Unix platforms and Java Runtime releases the Motif Look and Feel has several problems such as tiny or not diplayed toolbar buttons and "double-wide" scrollbars. We've been unable to find a consistent workaround across Java runtime releases for these problems and we recommend selecting the Metal Look And Feel in these environments.

To select Guiffy's Look And Feel edit the guiffy.lax file as follows:

After the LAX.COMMAND.LINE.ARGS line:
lax.command.line.args=$CMD_LINE_ARGUMENTS$
add the line:
lax.nl.java.option.additional=-Dguiffy.laf=LAFCLASSNAME
Where LAFCLASSNAME=
"com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel" for Windows,
"javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel" for Metal,
"com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel" for Motif,
(Do not include the quotes - just the fully qualified class name)