mantissa- / arc-pro-theme

My craptastic version of the Arc theme. Trying to change it to a dark gray version. Very unfinished, you've been warned.

Arc Pro Theme

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.

Arc-Pro will be available in three variants

Arc-Pro (TODO)

Arc-Pro-Dusk (TODO)

Arc-Pro-Night (Experimental / WIP) - Budgie Screenshot

Manual Installation

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 or pkgconfig for Fedora
• libgtk-3-dev for Debian based distros or gtk3-devel for RPM based distros
• git 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

1. Get the source

Clone the git repository with

git clone https://github.com/mantissa-/arc-pro-theme --depth 1 && cd arc-pro-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 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.

Uninstall

Run

sudo make uninstall

from the cloned git repository, or

sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{Arc-Pro,Arc-Pro-Dusk,Arc-Pro-Night}

Troubleshooting

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

Bugs

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.

License

Arc Pro is available under the terms of the GPL-3.0. See COPYING for details.