Human theme

This theme works with: GTK 2.24 (with murrine), GTK 3.24, and GTK 4.12.

It is mainly intended for Mate and Xfce desktop environments.

Screenshots

GTK 2.24 (Pango 1.51)

GTK 2.24 RTL (Pango 1.51)

GTK 3.24 (Pango 1.51)

GTK 3.24 RTL (Pango 1.51)

GTK 4.12 (Pango 1.51)

GTK 4.12 RTL (Pango 1.51)

Program used for the screenshots is available here.

Installation

🆕 Before start 🆕

To meet the truth (this is not required):

remove gtk3-nocsd
install gtk3-classic
use Pango 1.42- or 1.51+

For Debian Testing, I provide a repository for gtk3-classic.

If you can't/won't, no worries, but the truth will be far.

Installation for Debian, Ubuntu, Trisquel, Linux Mint, MX Linux

Run: sudo apt install human-theme-gtk
Restart your session

Installation for Fedora

Run: sudo dnf install human-theme-gtk
Restart your session

Installation for openSUSE

Run: sudo zypper install human-theme-gtk
Restart your session

Installation for Mageia

Run: sudo urpmi human-theme-gtk
Restart your session

Alternative installation for Debian, Ubuntu, Trisquel, Linux Mint, MX Linux

Run:

# PPA: https://launchpad.net/~luigifab/+archive/ubuntu/packages
# with Debian 12+ you can use mantic+ instead of focal (https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/669008/364800)
# for Trisquel you can use focal for nabia, jammy for aramo
# for Linux Mint you can use focal for 20.x and 5, jammy for 21.x, noble for 22.x and 6
# for MX Linux you can use focal for 19.x and 21.x, noble for 23.x

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:luigifab/packages
sudo apt update
sudo apt install human-theme-gtk
# or
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys FFE5BD439356DF7D
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/luigifab/packages/ubuntu focal main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install human-theme-gtk
# or
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/luigifab.gpg https://www.luigifab.fr/apt.gpg
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/luigifab/packages/ubuntu focal main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install human-theme-gtk

# sha256sum /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/luigifab.gpg
578c89a677048e38007462d543686b53587efba9f93814601169253c45ff9213
# apt-key list
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/luigifab.gpg
pub   rsa4096 2020-10-31 [SC]
      458B 0C46 D024 FD8C B8BC  99CD FFE5 BD43 9356 DF7D

Restart your session

Manual installation for Debian, Ubuntu, Trisquel, Linux Mint, MX Linux

Download archive and extract subdirectories in ~/.themes/
Configure font rendering, GTK and QT, add in /etc/environment:

FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35"
GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0
GTK_BACKDROP=1
GTK_FOCUS_VISIBLE=1
GTK_PROGRESS_TEXT_INSIDE=1
GTKM_INSERT_EMOJI=1
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2

Install icons and cursors themes: sudo apt install gnome-icon-theme dmz-cursor-theme
Install package for GTK 2 apps: sudo apt install gtk2-engines-murrine
Install package for QT 5 apps: sudo apt install qt5-gtk2-platformtheme qt5-gtk-platformtheme
Restart your session

Manual installation for Fedora

Download archive and extract subdirectories in ~/.themes/
Configure font rendering, GTK and QT, add in /etc/environment:

FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35"
GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0
GTK_BACKDROP=1
GTK_FOCUS_VISIBLE=1
GTK_PROGRESS_TEXT_INSIDE=1
GTKM_INSERT_EMOJI=1
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2

Install icons and cursors themes: sudo dnf install mate-icon-theme dmz-cursor-themes
Install package for GTK 2 apps: sudo dnf install gtk-murrine-engine
Restart your session

Manual installation for openSUSE

Download archive and extract subdirectories in ~/.themes/
Configure font rendering, GTK and QT, add in /etc/environment:

FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35"
GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0
GTK_BACKDROP=1
GTK_FOCUS_VISIBLE=1
GTK_PROGRESS_TEXT_INSIDE=1
GTKM_INSERT_EMOJI=1
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2

Install icons and cursors themes: sudo zypper install gnome-icon-theme dmz-cursor-themes
Install package for GTK 2 apps: sudo zypper install gtk2-engine-murrine
Install package for QT 5 apps: sudo zypper install libqt5-qtstyleplugins-platformtheme-gtk2 libqt5-qtbase-platformtheme-gtk3
Install package for QT 6 apps: sudo zypper install qt6-platformtheme-gtk3
Restart your session

Manual installation for Mageia

Download archive and extract subdirectories in ~/.themes/
Configure font rendering, GTK and QT, add in /etc/environment:

FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35"
GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0
GTK_BACKDROP=1
GTK_FOCUS_VISIBLE=1
GTK_PROGRESS_TEXT_INSIDE=1
GTKM_INSERT_EMOJI=1
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2

Install icons themes: sudo urpmi mate-icon-theme
Restart your session

Configuration

For Mate desktop:

Go to: System / Preferences / Appearance, or run: mate-appearance-properties
Then select the Human theme
Go to: System / Preferences / Windows, or run: mate-window-properties
Then disable software compositing from last tab

For Xfce desktop:

Go to: Applications / Settings / Appearance, or run: xfce4-appearance-settings
Then select the Human theme
Go to: Applications / Settings / Window Manager, or run: xfwm4-settings
Then select the Human theme

Fonts used:

DejaVu Sans Book or Sans Regular, 10
DejaVu Sans Bold or Sans Bold, 10
DejaVu Sans Mono Book or Monospace Regular, 10

Icons used:

gnome or mate

Cursors used:

DMZ white

Customize

Use the file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css.

Firefox/Thunderbird/Chromium

For Firefox and Thunderbird and Chromium, if font rendering is bad, try this:

cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/
sudo rm 10-hinting-slight.conf # /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf
sudo ln -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-full.conf

For classic menu bar and menu items of Firefox 46+ and Thunderbird 46+, see bug 1622545.

Dev

Run AWF with screenshot on theme reload:

awf-gtk2 -n -s ~/2.png
awf-gtk3 -n -s ~/3.png
awf-gtk4 -n -s ~/4.png

Run Entr to send SIGHUP signal when files change to reload theme:

ls ~/.themes/human-theme*/gtk-2*/gtkrc | entr killall -s SIGHUP awf-gtk2
ls ~/.themes/human-theme*/gtk-3*/*.css | entr killall -s SIGHUP awf-gtk3
ls ~/.themes/human-theme*/gtk-4*/*.css | entr killall -s SIGHUP awf-gtk4

Run ImageMagick to create the diff image:

killall -q eom
rm -f ~/diff3.png
compare -fuzz 1% -compose src -highlight-color blue -lowlight-color none ~/2.png ~/3.png ~/diff3.png
composite ~/diff3.png ~/2.png ~/diff3.png
eom ~/diff3.png &

Run svg.sh to update SVG images. See also technical informations.

Copyright

Current version: 2.2.0 (02/02/2024)
Compatibility: GTK 2.24 / 3.24 / 4.12
Links: luigifab.fr - github.com - mate-look.org - xfce-look.org
Arch Linux human-theme-gtk.zst
Debian human-theme-gtk.deb (ITP, RFS)
Fedora human-theme-gtk.rpm
openSUSE human-theme-gtk.rpm
Mageia human-theme-gtk.rpm
Ubuntu PPA

This theme is provided under the terms of the GNU GPLv3+ license.
If you like, take some of your time to improve some translations, go to https://bit.ly/2HyCCEc.

Packages in official distros repositories

Credits

GTK 2 theme (CC-BY-SA-3.0+)

Created by Kenneth Wimer and Conn O'Griofa (see human-theme Ubuntu package)

GTK 3 theme (GNU GPLv3+)

Forked from Clearlooks-Phénix by Mike Kazantsev (mk-fg)
Forked from Clearlooks-Phénix by Jean-Philippe Fleury (jpfleury) and Andrew Shadura

Metacity theme (clearlooks, GNU LGPLv2.1+)

Created by Daniel Borgmann and Andrea Cimitan

luigifab / human-theme