Arc-Flatabulous theme is the Arc theme with Flatabulous window controls.
- Gnome/GTK3 3.14 - 3.22
- 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 or newer (Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 are not supported)
- elementary OS Freya/Loki
- Debian 8, Testing or Unstable
- Gentoo
- Fedora 21 or newer
- 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.
Important: Remove all older versions of the theme from your system before you proceed any further.
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{Arc-Flatabulous,Arc-Flatabulous-Darker,Arc-Flatabulous-Dark}
rm -rf ~/.local/share/themes/{Arc-Flatabulous,Arc-Flatabulous-Darker,Arc-Flatabulous-Dark}
rm -rf ~/.themes/{Arc-Flatabulous,Arc-Flatabulous-Darker,Arc-Flatabulous-Dark}
Arch Linux users can install the theme from the AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-arc-flatabulous-theme-git/
To build the theme you'll 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 distribution 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/andreisergiu98/arc-flatabulous-theme && cd arc-flatabulous-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-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-Flatabulous
, Arc-Flatabulous-Darker
or Arc-Flatabulous-Dark
as Window/GTK+ theme and Arc-Flatabulous
or Arc-Flatabulous-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-Flatabulous,Arc-Flatabulous-Darker,Arc-Flatabulous-Dark}
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/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.
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.) 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
If you get artifacts like black or invisible backgrounds under Unity, disable overlay scrollbars with
gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal
If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/andreisergiu98/arc-flatabulous-theme/issues
Arc is available under the terms the GPL-3.0. See COPYING
for details.
Screenshot Details: Icons: Numix Circle | Wallpaper | Font: Source Sans Pro
- horst3180 for creating the Arc theme.
- Anmol Jagetia for creating the Flatabulous theme.