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Arc Theme
Arc is a flat theme with transparent elements for GTK 3, GTK 2 and Gnome-Shell. It supports GTK 3 and GTK 2 based desktop environments like Gnome, Unity, Budgie, Pantheon, etc.
###Arc is available in three variants
#####Arc
#####Arc-Darker
#####Arc-Dark
Requirements
- Gnome/GTK 3.14 or 3.16
- The
gnome-themes-standard
package - The murrine engine. This has different names depending on your 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)
Main distributions that meet these requirements are
- Arch Linux and Arch Linux based distros
- Ubuntu 15.04
- elementary OS Freya
- Debian Jessie, Testing or Unstable
- Gentoo
- Fedora 21 and 22
- OpenSuse 13.2 and Tumbleweed
Derivatives of these distributions should work, aswell.
If your distribution is not listed, please check the requirements yourself.
Installation
Important: Remove all older versions of the theme from your system before you proceed any further.
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{Arc,Arc-Darker,Arc-Dark}
rm -rf ~/.local/share/themes/{Arc,Arc-Darker,Arc-Dark}
rm -rf ~/.themes/{Arc,Arc-Darker,Arc-Dark}
Packages
Prebuilt packages for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE are available at
http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3AHorst3180&package=arc-theme
Note: elementary OS Freya users can install the package for Ubuntu 15.04
Note 2: The debian packages are broken at the moment. Please install manually until this is fixed.
Arch Linux users can install the theme from the AUR
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-theme-arc-git/
Manual Installation
To build the theme you need
autoconf
automake
pkg-config
orpkgconfig
if you use Fedoralibgtk-3-dev
for Debian based distros orgtk3-devel
for RPM based distrosgit
if you want to clone the source directory
If your distributions doesn't ship separate development packages you just need GTK 3 instead of the -dev
packages.
Install the theme with the following commands
1. Get the source
If you want to install the latest version from git, clone the repository with
git clone https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme --depth 1 && cd arc-theme
2. Build and install the 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 Light support
--disable-darker disable Arc Darker support
--disable-dark disable Arc Dark 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
--disable-xfce-notify disable XFCE Notify support
--with-gnome=<version> build the theme for a specific Gnome version (3.14, 3.16)
Note: Normally the correct version is detected automatically and this
option should not be needed.
After the installation is complete you can activate the theme with gnome-tweak-tool
or a similar program by selecting Arc
, Arc-Darker
or Arc-Dark
as Window/GTK+ theme and Arc
as Gnome-Shell and Xfce-Notify theme.
Uninstall the theme
Run
sudo make uninstall
from the same directory as this README resides in, or
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{Arc,Arc-Darker,Arc-Dark}
Extras
The extra
directory in the same directory as this README resides in contains a Chrome/Chromium and a Plank theme.
To install the Chrome/Chromium theme go to the extra/Chrome
folder and drag and drop the arc-theme.crx or arc-dark-theme.crx file into the Chrome/Chromium window. The source of the Chrome themes is located in the source "Chrome/arc-theme" folder.
To install the Plank theme, copy the extra/Arc-Plank
folder to ~/.local/share/plank/themes
or to /usr/share/plank/themes
for system-wide use.
Now open the Plank preferences window by executing plank --preferences
from a terminal and select Arc-Plank
as the theme.
Troubleshooting
If you get artifacts like black or invisible backgrounds under Unity, disable overlay scrollbars with
gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal
Bug reporting
If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme/issues