System 7 stuff is going to look very small at 2026 screen resolutions. The widget dimensions on it mostly correspond to the original Mac’s dimensions, from 1984.
That being said, it looks like archive.org has archives of kaleidoscope.net’s — the most popular third-party theme engine — theme archives:
There’s an “Mac OS” category of GTK themes on gnome-look.org, and I imagine that the KDE people probably have something comparable. I haven’t used any myself.
XScreenSaver 6.11 is out now. This is a Unix-only release – this version contains preliminary support for Wayland.
This is maybe not entirely ready for prime time, but I figured I’d get it out there so that some people who actually understand Wayland can poke at it.
The #2 reason I’m still on a Mac is because I prefer the look of its UX. Can you recommend a good window manager/theme that replicates macOS Sequoia?
And also one that will replicate system 7 because I am an old and nostalgic man.
Making KDE look like a Mac is an entire genre of easily downloaded and installed themes:
https://store.kde.org/p/1400409
https://store.kde.org/p/1305006
https://store.kde.org/p/1398837
https://store.kde.org/p/2229017/
System 7 stuff is going to look very small at 2026 screen resolutions. The widget dimensions on it mostly correspond to the original Mac’s dimensions, from 1984.
That being said, it looks like archive.org has archives of kaleidoscope.net’s — the most popular third-party theme engine — theme archives:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140423004746fw_/http://kaleidoscope.net/schemes/completelisting.shtml
So in theory, somone could make a bulk converter from System 7 themes to GTK or whatever.
checks
https://www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=135&ord=latest&tag=macos
There’s an “Mac OS” category of GTK themes on gnome-look.org, and I imagine that the KDE people probably have something comparable. I haven’t used any myself.
Thanks! I’ll try these out tomorrow.
Sidenote: Is there a flying toasters screensaver?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dark_(software)
That being said, it looks like xscreensaver doesn’t presently fully work on Wayland (or didn’t as of six months ago):
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/xscreensaver-6-11/