WhiteSur Gtk Theme

WhiteSur is a MacOS Big Sur like theme for GTK 3, GTK 2 and Gnome-Shell which supports GTK 3 and GTK 2 based desktop environments like Gnome, Pantheon, XFCE, Mate, etc.

Requirements

GTK2 Murrine engine requirements.

• gtk-murrine-engine Fedora/RedHat
• gtk2-engines-murrine Ubuntu/Mint/Debian
• gtk-engine-murrine Arch/Manjaro

GTK2 pixbuf engine requirements.

• gtk2-engines Fedora/RedHat
• gtk2-engines-pixbuf Ubuntu/Mint/Debian
• gtk-engines Arch/Manjaro

Installed Dependency requirements.

• sassc
• optipng
• inkscape
• dialog
• libglib2.0-dev-bin ubuntu 20.04
• libglib2.0-dev ubuntu 18.04 debian 10.03 linux mint 19
• libxml2-utils ubuntu 18.04 debian 10.03 linux mint 19
• glib2-devel Fedora Redhat

Installation

From source

After all dependencies are installed, you can run:

./install.sh

Install tips

Usage: ./install.sh [OPTIONS...]

OPTIONS:
-d, --dest	Specify theme destination directory (Default: $HOME/.themes)
-n, --name	Specify theme name (Default: WhiteSur)
-c, --color	Specify theme color variant(s) [light/dark] (Default: All variants)
-o, --opacity	Specify theme opacity variant(s) [standard/solid] (Default: All variants)
-a, --alt	Specify titlebutton variant(s) [standard/alt] (Default: All variants)
-t, --theme	Change the theme color [default/blue/purple/pink/red/orange/yellow/green/grey] (Default: MacOS blue)
-p, --panel	Change the panel opacty [default/25/35/45/55/65/75/85] (Default: 16)
-s, --size	Change the nautilus sidebar width size [default/220/240/260/280] (Default: 200px)
-i, --icon	Activities icon variant(s) [standard/normal/gnome/ubuntu/arch/manjaro/fedora/debian/void] (Default: standard variant)
-g, --gdm	Install GDM theme, you should run this with sudo!
-r, --remove	Remove theme, this will remove all installed themes!
-dialog, --dialog	Run terminal dialog, this will Run terminal dialog to install themes!
-h, --help	Show this help

1. Change theme accent color

If you want to change theme accent! (Default color is default MacOS color) then you can run:

./install.sh -t green  # Install green accent color version

2. Install GDM theme

If you want to install GDM theme! then you can run:

sudo ./install.sh -g      # install default dark version

sudo ./install.sh -g -c light     # install light version

sudo ./install.sh -g -r     # remove installed GDM theme

3. Change nautilus sidebar width size

If you want to change nautilus sidebar width size! (Default size is 200px) (Nautilus cannot change the structure of the sidebar, so I added a picture as a background to achieve the effect of bigsur) then you can run:

./install.sh -s 260    # Install 260px width version

4. Change gnome-shell activities icon

If you want to change gnome-shell activities icon! (Default icon is Apple) then you can run: (For example: Install Manjaro icon)

./install.sh -i manjaro

On Snapcraft

You can install the theme from the Snap Store, or by running:

sudo snap install whitesur-gtk-theme

To connect the theme to an app, run:

sudo snap connect [other snap]:gtk-3-themes whitesur-gtk-theme:gtk-3-themes

sudo snap connect [other snap]:icon-themes whitesur-gtk-theme:icon-themes

To connect the theme to all apps which have available plugs to gtk-common-themes, you can run:

for i in $(snap connections | grep gtk-common-themes:gtk-3-themes | awk '{print $2}'); do sudo snap connect $i whitesur-gtk-theme:gtk-3-themes; done

Suggested themes

Suggested themes	Links	Preview
Kde theme	WhiteSur-kde
Icon theme	WhiteSur-icon
Wallpaper	WhiteSur wallpaper
Firefox theme	WhiteSur firefox theme
Dash to Dock theme	WhiteSur dash-to-dock theme

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