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"wgh" <wgh@askme.ok> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Ever since I downloaded Emacs21, I got those ugly scroll-bar,
> tool-bar and mode-line in that fancy tool-kit. I found
> out how to disable the tool-bar:
> 
> (tool-bar-mode -1)
> 
> in .emacs or simply M-x tool-bar-mode
> 
> I also found out how to disable the scroll-bar which requires you
> to recompile Emacs21 with the --without-toolkit-scroll-bars option.
> However I haven't figured out how to revert the mode-line back
> to Emacs20 style.
> 
> Does anyone know how to just have Emacs21 look the way it did?
> 
> Thanks.

You can simply customize the face of the mode-line to remove the 3D 
box effect around the line...

M-x customize-face [RET] modeline