A personal theme for both GTK 2 and GTK 3 applications, using dark mode, like old-school Zenburn, but emphasizing just three colors: dark gray, not-quite white, and alien-fruit-salad blue.
On GNU/Linux systems:
- Clone to
~/.themes/MyAdwaita
. - Set
~/.gtkrc-2.0
toinclude "/home/USERNAME/.themes/MyAdwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
. - Use
gnome-tweaks
(e.g.sudo apt install gnome-tweaks
) to set GTK 3 theme.
Changes are often picked up immediately with new windows, but it's useful to
restart the desktop session when verifying changes. For GTK 2, it's useful to
have a tool such as gtk-chtheme
(e.g. sudo apt install gtk-chtheme
) to hit
"Apply" on the selected theme.
For GTK 2, edit theme files in place.
For GTK 3, edit Sass .scss files to compile to gtk.css. A single-command build
is available with GNU Make, just run make
in the gtk-3.0
directory (make -C gtk-3.0
). Alternatively, see the gtk
README for guidance on
build instructions.
Ruby is required for Sass.
Note that theme personalization forces dark mode; the light variant is unused.
- gtk-2.0 theme is a clone of Adwaita-dark from Ubuntu 18.04.
- gtk-3.0 theme originates from gtk source at tag 3.22.14.