OSX-Arc theme collection is a flat theme collection based on arc 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.
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How To Install:
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Download
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Extract to /usr/share/themes or ~/.themes (create it (in your home folder) if necessary);
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Change via distribution specific tweak tool.
Note: If your distribution doesn't ship separate development packages you just need GTK 3 instead of the -dev packages.
For the theme to function properly, install the following
- Gnome Shell, GTK 3.14 - 3.22
- The
gnome-themes-standardpackage - 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)
After the installation is complete you can activate the theme with gnome-tweak-tool or a similar program by selecting OSX-Arc-White, OSX-Arc-Darker or OSX-Arc-Shadow as Window/GTK+ theme and OSX-Arc-White, OSX-Arc-Darker or OSX-Arc-Shadow as Gnome Shell/Cinnamon theme.
Run
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{OSX-Arc-White,OSX-Arc-Darker,OSX-Arc-Shadow}
A theme for Firefox is available at https://github.com/horst3180/arc-firefox-theme
The Arc icon theme is available at https://github.com/horst3180/arc-icon-theme
To install the Chrome/Chromium theme go to the Extra folder and drag and drop the arc-theme.crx or arc-dark-theme.crx or arc-darker-theme.crx file into the Chrome/Chromium window. The source of the Chrome themes is located in the source folder "OSX-Arc-White > Extra folder > arc-theme.crx.
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.
The Arc Dark theme for the Ubuntu Software Center by mervick can be installed from here. It solves readability issues with Arc Dark and the Ubuntu Software Center.
If you have 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.) you have to install the theme 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
Bugs should be reported here on the Github issues page.
OSX-Arc Collection is available under the terms of the GPL-3.0. See COPYING for details.
