oomox theme designer

Graphical application for generating different color variations of a Numix-based and Materia (ex-Flat-Plat) themes (GTK2, GTK3), Gnome-Colors and Archdroid icon themes.

Installation:

Arch Linux, Manjaro
CentOS, Fedora, Mageia
Slackware
Ubuntu
Other distributions
Flatpak

Arch Linux:

Install

pikaur -S oomox-git

Open the GUI

oomox-gui

Flatpak

You can build and run the latest application version in any distribution with flatpak available with the following commands:

cd ./packaging/flatpak/
./flatpak-builder-build.sh
./flatpak-builder-run.sh

CentOS, Fedora, Mageia

Oomox can be installed by using a third party COPR repository:

sudo dnf copr enable tcg/themes
sudo dnf install oomox

Slackware

There is a slackbuild: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/desktop/oomox/

Ubuntu

For Ubuntu 17.04+ you can download oomox.deb package here: https://github.com/actionless/oomox/releases

sudo dpkg -i ./oomox.deb
sudo apt install -f

For older Ubuntu releases install the dependencies manually and next follow general installation instructions below.

Other distributions:

Prerequisites

You need to have python3-gobject binding and those libraries/executables:

glib-compile-schemas
gdk-pixbuf-pixdata
sassc>=3.4
gtk3>=3.18
bc
sed
rsvg-convert from librsvg
imagemagick
zip - optional, for spotify theme
optipng - optional, for Materia theme
parallel - optional, for Materia theme
inkscape - optional, for Materia theme

For GTK2 you need murrine engine which can be not installed by default.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/actionless/oomox.git --recursive
cd oomox
# if you need to generate French locale:
make -f po.mk install

Running

./gui.sh

After exporting a theme select the generated theme (oomox-YOUR-THEME-NAME) in your appearance config tool (for example, lxappearance or gnome-tweak-tool).

If your prefer CLI interface, refer to change_color.sh scripts inside ./plugins/.

Spotify:

Spotify theme can be also exported from GUI, but if you prefer commandline interface:

./plugins/oomoxify/oomoxify.sh ./colors/gnome-colors/shiki-noble

Also you can normalize font weight with -w argument, see -h for usage.

Using with tiling WMs:

To resolve borders/shadow problem in tiling window managers create/append to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:

.window-frame, .window-frame:backdrop {
    box-shadow: 0 0 0 black;
    border-style: none;
    margin: 0;
    border-radius: 0;
}
.titlebar {
    border-radius: 0;
}
window decoration {
    margin: 0;
    border: 0;
}

Review articles

To learn more about using the application you can check these articles:

Demo video

One of the users, Spatry, made this cool demo video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh5TuIYQ6jo

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