mclmza / arc-theme-red

A red themed derivation of https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme

Arc Theme Red

A red variation of Horst3180's Arc Theme.

This version has a reduced color range, is mostly gray and red. I developed this version especially for all those who use linux on a Thinkpad.

Download the built theme here

Arc 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.

Arc Red is available in three variants

Arc-Red

Arc-Red-Darker

Arc-Red-Dark

Requirements

• Gnome/GTK 3.14, 3.16, 3.18 or 3.20
• 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, 15.10 and 16.04 (Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 are not supported)
• elementary OS Freya
• Debian 8, Testing or Unstable
• Gentoo
• Fedora 21 - 24
• openSUSE 13.2, Leap 42.1 and Tumbleweed

Derivatives of these distributions should work, as well.

If your distribution isn't 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-Red,Arc-Red-Darker,Arc-Red-Dark}
rm -rf ~/.local/share/themes/{Arc-Red,Arc-Red-Darker,Arc-Red-Dark}
rm -rf ~/.themes/{Arc-Red,Arc-Red-Darker,Arc-Red-Dark}

Packages

Prebuilt packages for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE are available at ...

Manual Installation

To build the theme you'll need

• autoconf
• automake
• pkg-config or pkgconfig if you use Fedora
• libgtk-3-dev for Debian based distros or gtk3-devel for RPM based distros
• git 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/mclmza/arc-theme-Red --depth 1 && cd arc-theme-Red

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-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)
                           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-Red, Arc-Red-Darker or Arc-Red-Dark as Window/GTK+ theme and Arc-Red or Arc-Red-Dark 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-Red,Arc-Red-Darker,Arc-Red-Dark}

Todo

• Replace the color of some remaining pictures in the assets folder.

Extras

Arc Red Docky theme

A theme for Docky is available at https://github.com/alireza-amirsamimi/Arc-Dark-Docky-themes

Arc icon theme

The Arc icon theme is available at https://github.com/horst3180/arc-icon-theme

Troubleshooting

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.) the prebuilt packages won't work properly and 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

Bug reporting

If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/mclmza/arc-theme-Red/issues

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arc-theme-red's Issues

No rule to make target 'install'. Stop.

When I hit sudo make install the terminal prompts ' No rule to make target 'install'. Stop.'

Update for GTK 3.24 PLZ

Update for GTK 3.24 PLZ

Update for GTK-3.22

Update for GTK 3.22

pls?

Arc-Red-Darker does not work in XFCE

The theme looks exactly like Arc-Darker.
Example:

Theme title bar isn't showing on Unity

I am on Ubuntu 16.04.1, Unity 7.4.0. Arc Red doesn't have the Arc title bar, it looks like the stock theme that comes up when something is incompatible.

Arc Red Darker:

Arc Darker:

installation

root@kali:~/arc-theme-Red# ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure:2670: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

Please how to solve this problem?

[Suggest] Add more colors to the palette

Add more selected colors to choose. I love this red,but I don't think so hard to add more to the palette

installation problem

./autogen.sh: line 10: autoreconf: command not found

showing this problem how to deal with this problem>??

/tmp/ariw8syH/am4tGFnups/traces.m4: No space left on device

Arch Linux, Budgie desktop! :|

arc-theme-Red]$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
autom4te: cannot close > /tmp/ariw8syH/am4tGFnups/traces.m4: No space left on device
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

Open but not active

Hi - I've been trying to find out which line to change in the css file in arc-red-dark to set the background of an open but inactive app to a paler version of the open and active. No luck so far. Am using Ubuntu Budgie 17.10. Love this theme!

Firefox tab highlight

Using Arc-Red-Dark in Xubuntu 16.04. The highlight color for firefox's current tab is a light blue, which makes the actual text difficult to read. Anything that can be done to change this?

arc-red-darker only partially red

Hello,

I installed the theme and I love it so far. But while arc-red and arc-red-dark work perfect, arc-red-darker is still somewhat blue like the original. Im using xfce4 and archlinux.

Change color

Is there any way that I can easily replace the red color with something else ?

Don't understand

I don't get it !

it tell me something like this
'./autogen.sh: 10: ./autogen.sh: autoreconf: not found
'

• problem sloved! XD

2 bugs found

1. no close or minimize or maximize not visible but clickable.
2. Arc-Red Theme have ugly view on leftbar file manager list

Docky theme for Arc-Dark-Red

Hello
Thanks for your beautiful themes
I made some themes for docky based on your themes color.

https://github.com/alireza-amirsamimi/Arc-Dark-Docky-themes

docky is a dock program like plank and cairo and ...

You can fork my repository or add my repository link to your README file if you like!

thanks :)

Not installable with Gnome 3.22

I'm using Debian testing (stretch) and can't install this due to seemingly too new gnome/gtk+:

azatoth@azaboxen:~/build/arc-theme-Red «master u=»$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Autoheader
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
configure: error: Invalid GNOME version: 3.22
azatoth@azaboxen:~/build/arc-theme-Red «master u=»$ apt-cache policy libgtk-3-dev
libgtk-3-dev:
  Installed: 3.22.1-1
  Candidate: 3.22.1-1
  Version table:
 *** 3.22.1-1 500
        500 http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/linux/mirrors/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

GTK 3.20 support?

It seem the latest revision of this theme is still broken on GTK3 apps, such as like this:

I'm using Arch Linux with MATE desktop environment.

No minimize, restore, close buttons visualization on ElementaryOS Loki.

On Firefox, Netbeans, Android Studio, some editors text, etc.

Nice theme.

Xfce Notification Sliders

Hello! I'm using Xubuntu 16.04 and the sliders in the brightness and volume notifications are still blue.

Thank you for making such a nice theme!