Materia

Materia is a Material Design theme for GNOME/GTK based desktop environments.

It supports GTK 2, GTK 3, GNOME Shell, Budgie, Cinnamon, MATE, Unity, Xfce, LightDM, GDM, Chrome theme, etc.

Previews

Features

Supports ripple animations for GTK 3:

3 color variants and 2 size variants are available:

Materia	standard	compact
standard
dark
light

Supported Desktop Environments

Budgie >=10.4
Cinnamon >=3.x
GNOME Shell >=3.18
MATE >=1.14
Unity >=7.4
Xfce >=4.13

Unsupported

Downstream customized GNOME sessions

e.g. "Ubuntu" session, "Pop" session. To properly use Materia on GNOME Shell, please install gnome-session and then switch to "GNOME" or "GNOME on Xorg" session from your display manager.
elementary apps

Because they are based on their own stylesheet that conflicts with GTK standards.

Requirements

GTK >=3.20
gnome-themes-extra (or gnome-themes-standard)
Murrine engine — The package name depends on the distro.
- gtk-engine-murrine on Arch Linux
- gtk-murrine-engine on Fedora
- gtk2-engine-murrine on openSUSE
- gtk2-engines-murrine on Debian, Ubuntu, etc.
bc — build dependency

Installation

Distro Packages

Distro	Package Name	Annotation
Arch Linux	`materia-gtk-theme`	Link
Debian 10 or later	`materia-gtk-theme`	Link
Fedora	`materia-gtk-theme`	Available from @LaurentTreguier's Copr
Solus	`materia-gtk-theme`	Link
Ubuntu 18.04 or later	`materia-gtk-theme`	Link

Warning: Ubuntu disco (19.04) & eoan (19.10) packages are very outdated and incompatible with GNOME 3.32 or later! If you are using GNOME on Ubuntu, you should manually install the theme.

Note: Some distro packages (especially Ubuntu ones) may be outdated and incompatible with your desktop environment. You can check the latest version here.

Flatpak

All 6 variants are available via Flathub:

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Materia{,-dark,-light}{,-compact}

Manual Installation

Run the following commands in the terminal:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme
cd materia-theme
sudo ./install.sh

Tip: ./install.sh allows the following options:

-d, --dest DIR          Specify destination directory (Default: /usr/share/themes)
-n, --name NAME         Specify theme name (Default: Materia)
-c, --color VARIANT...  Specify color variant(s) [standard|dark|light] (Default: All variants)
-s, --size VARIANT      Specify size variant [standard|compact] (Default: All variants)
-g, --gdm               Install and apply GDM theme (for advanced users)
                        See also: src/gnome-shell/README.md
-h, --help              Show help

For more information, run: ./install.sh --help

Manual Uninstallation

Delete the installed directories:

sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/Materia{,-dark,-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 (= 13px at 96dpi) or 10.5 (= 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 gnome-shell/README.md for details.

Customization

Materia can be customized with GUI application, oomox theme designer.

Materia also allows you to change the color scheme relatively easily in other ways. 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 at TODO.md.

Related Projects

Materia KDE by @PapirusDevelopmentTeam
Materia VSCode Theme by @m-thorsen
Materia Kolorizer by @DarthWound
oomox theme designer by @themix-project

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.
@smurphos who made and provided the Cinnamon theme for Materia.

Also thank you to all contributors and upstream developers.

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