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.

Info

GTK+ 3.20 or later

GTK2 engines requirements

GTK2 Murrine engine.

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

GTK2 pixbuf engine.

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

Installation Depends requirement

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 the dependencies are installed, you can Run

./install.sh

Install tips

Usage: ./Install [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	Run a terminal dialog to change the theme accent color (Default: blue)
-p, --panel	Run a terminal dialog to change the panel transparency (Default: 85%)
-s, --size	Run a terminal dialog to change the nautilus sidebar width size (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!
-h, --help	Show this help

1. Change theme accent color

If you want to change theme accent! (Default color is blue) then you can run: ( dialog is required, install it first! )

./install.sh -t

2. Install GDM theme

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

./install.sh -g      (install default dark version)

./install.sh -g -c light     (install light version)

./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 180px) (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: ( dialog is required, install it first! )

./install.sh -s

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 оr 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