Arc Pro is a flat theme with transparent elements for GTK 3, GTK 2 and GNOME Shell which supports GTK 3 and GTK 2 based desktop environments like GNOME, Unity, Budgie, Pantheon, Xfce, MATE, etc.
Only GTK 3 (Gnome / Budgie) is somewhat supported at the moment, this theme is very much a work in progress. (Any help is much appreciated.)
This version is a basic spin / hack in an attempt to make it dark gray, so expect most of it to not work properly.
This theme is only being tested on the Gnome 3.22 version, others will still default to the original theme.
To build the theme the follwing packages are required
autoconf
automake
pkg-config
orpkgconfig
for Fedoralibgtk-3-dev
for Debian based distros orgtk3-devel
for RPM based distrosgit
to clone the source directory
Note: For distributions which don't ship separate development packages, just the GTK 3 package is needed instead of the -dev
packages.
For the theme to function properly, install the following
- GNOME Shell 3.14 - 3.24, GTK 3.14 - 3.22
- The
gnome-themes-standard
package - The murrine engine. This has different names depending on the distro.
gtk-engine-murrine
(Arch Linux)gtk2-engines-murrine
(Debian, Ubuntu, elementary OS)gtk-murrine-engine
(Fedora)gtk2-engine-murrine
(openSUSE)gtk-engines-murrine
(Gentoo)
Install the theme with the following commands
Clone the git repository with
git clone https://github.com/mantissa-/arc-pro-theme --depth 1 && cd arc-pro-theme
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
sudo make install
Other options to pass to autogen.sh are
--disable-transparency disable transparency in the GTK3 theme
--disable-light disable Arc Pro support
--disable-darker disable Arc Pro Dusk support
--disable-dark disable Arc Pro Night support
--disable-cinnamon disable Cinnamon support
--disable-gnome-shell disable GNOME Shell support
--disable-gtk2 disable GTK2 support
--disable-gtk3 disable GTK3 support
--disable-metacity disable Metacity support
--disable-unity disable Unity support
--disable-xfwm disable XFWM support
--with-gnome=<version> build the theme for a specific GNOME version (3.14, 3.16, 3.18, 3.20, 3.22)
Note 1: Normally the correct version is detected automatically and this
option should not be needed.
Note 2: For GNOME 3.24, use --with-gnome-version=3.22
(this works for now, the build system will be improved in the future)
After the installation is complete the theme can be activated with gnome-tweak-tool
or a similar program by selecting Arc-Pro
, Arc-Pro-Dusk
or Arc-Pro-Night
as Window/GTK+ theme and Arc-Pro
or Arc-Pro-Night
as GNOME Shell/Cinnamon theme.
If the --disable-transparency
option was used, the theme will be installed as Arc-Pro-solid
, Arc-Pro-Dusk-solid
and Arc-Pro-Night-solid
.
Run
sudo make uninstall
from the cloned git repository, or
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{Arc-Pro,Arc-Pro-Dusk,Arc-Pro-Night}
If you use Ubuntu with a newer GTK/GNOME version than the one included by default (i.e Ubuntu 14.04 with GTK 3.14 or Ubuntu 15.04 with GTK 3.16, etc.) the prebuilt packages won't work properly and the theme has to be installed manually as described above. This is also true for other distros with a different GTK/GNOME version than the one included by default
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If you get artifacts like black or invisible backgrounds under Unity, disable overlay scrollbars with
gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal
If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/mantissa-/arc-pro-theme/issues I'm very slowly porting (hacking) this theme in my free time though, so don't expect any wonders.
Arc Pro is available under the terms of the GPL-3.0. See COPYING
for details.