Materia
Materia (formerly Flat-Plat) is a Material Design theme for GNOME/GTK+ based desktop environments.
It supports GTK+ 3, GTK+ 2, GNOME Shell, Budgie, MATE, Unity, LightDM, GDM, Chrome theme, etc.
Also Materia has compatibility with oomox theme designer.
Features
Ripple effect animations for GTK+ 3 are supported:
3 color variants and 2 size variants are available:
Materia | standard | compact |
---|---|---|
standard | ||
dark | ||
light |
Various desktop environments are supported:
- GNOME Shell
>=3.18
- Budgie
>=10.2.5
- MATE
>=1.14
- Unity
>=7.4
- ... and more DEs are planned.
Installation
Arch Linux
Package is available via AUR (maintained by @cthbleachbit):
yaourt -S materia-theme
Fedora / EPEL
Package is available via Copr (maintained by @LaurentTreguier):
sudo dnf copr enable tcg/themes
sudo dnf install materia-theme
Ubuntu
Package is available via PPA (maintained by @igor-dyatlov):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dyatlov-igor/materia-theme
sudo apt update
sudo apt install materia-theme
Debian sid
Official package (maintained by @isaagar) is available:
sudo apt install materia-gtk-theme
Flatpak
3 variants (Materia, Materia-dark, Materia-light) are available via Flathub:
flatpak remote-add flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Materia
flatpak install flathub org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Materia-dark
flatpak install flathub org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Materia-light
Manual Installation
Requirements
You need to have the following dependencies:
- GTK+
>=3.18
gnome-themes-standard
orgnome-themes-extra
— The package name depends on the distro.- Murrine engine — The package name depends on the distro.
gtk-engine-murrine
on Arch Linuxgtk-murrine-engine
on Fedoragtk2-engine-murrine
on openSUSEgtk2-engines-murrine
on Debian, Ubuntu, etc.
Installation
Run the following commands in the terminal:
cd /tmp && wget -qO - https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme/archive/master.tar.gz | tar xz
cd materia-theme-master
sudo ./install.sh
Note: ./install.sh
allows the following options:
-d, --dest DIR Specify destination directory
-n, --name NAME Specify theme name
-c, --color VARIANTS... Specify color variant(s) [standard|dark|light]
-s, --size VARIANT Specify size variant [standard|compact]
Without any options, Materia will be installed with all variants into /usr/share/themes
.
Try ./install.sh --help
for more information.
Uninstallation
Delete the installed directories:
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/Materia{,-compact,-dark,-dark-compact,-light,-light-compact}
Recommendations
Font
- To properly display the theme, use a font family including Medium weight (e.g. Roboto or M+).
- Set the font size to
9.75
or10.5
(i.e. 13px or 14px at 96dpi).
Chrome Theme
To use the Chrome theme;
- Open the
chrome
folder on/usr/share/themes/Materia<-variant>
. - Drag and drop the
.crx
files into the Chrome/Chromium Extensions page (chrome://extensions
).
GDM Theme
You can change the GDM (lock/login screen) theme by replacing the default GNOME Shell theme.
See the wiki for details: https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme/wiki/GDM-Theme
Previews
GNOME Shell
Budgie Desktop
GDM
Previews Info: Icon Theme: Paper | Font: M+ 1C 9.75pt | Dock's icon size: 48px + fixed | Wallpapers
Customization
Materia allows you to change the color scheme relatively easily. See HACKING.md
for details.
Contributing
If you find bugs or have suggestions, please report it to the issue tracker. Any contribution would be much appreciated.
ToDo list can be found here: TODO.md
License
Materia is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING
file for details.
Credits
- Materia is based on Adwaita by GNOME.
- Design and specifications are based on Google's Material Design.
- The included symbolic icons are based on Material Design icons by Google.
- Chrome/Chromium scrollbars extension was forked from Adwaita-chrome-scrollbar by GNOME Integration Team.
- Yauhen Kirylau (@actionless) who is oomox author polished scripts and supported Materia with oomox.
- @n3oxmind who helped improve the installation script.
Also thank you to all contributors and upstream developers.