SolArc 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.
SolArc is a fork of the Arc theme: https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme
Colours are based on the Solarized colour scheme by Ethan Schoonover: https://github.com/altercation/solarized
Most of the work is done inside solarize.sh, which replaces various Arc colours with matching Solarized colours.
- 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.
You can install the AUR package: gtk-theme-solarc-git
Important: Remove all older versions of the theme from your system before you proceed any further.
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{SolArc,SolArc-Darker,SolArc-Dark}
rm -rf ~/.local/share/themes/{SolArc,SolArc-Darker,SolArc-Dark}
rm -rf ~/.themes/{SolArc,SolArc-Darker,SolArc-Dark}
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 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/apheleia/solarc-theme --depth 1 && cd solarc-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 SolArc Light support
--disable-darker disable SolArc Darker support
--disable-dark disable SolArc 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 SolArc
, SolArc-Darker
or SolArc-Dark
as Window/GTK+ theme and SolArc
or SolArc-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/{SolArc,SolArc-Darker,SolArc-Dark}
Every contribution is very welcome! Please create an issue and/or a pull request.
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
If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/apheleia/solarc-theme/issues
SolArc is available under the terms of the GPL-3.0. See COPYING
for details.
Screenshot Details: Icons: Arc Icon Theme | Wallpaper: Jason Levesque | Font: DejaVu Sans