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 engine Murrine 0.98.1.1 or later.
• GTK2 pixbuf engine or the gtk(2)-engines package.

Fedora/RedHat distros:

dnf install gtk-murrine-engine gtk2-engines

Ubuntu/Mint/Debian distros:

sudo apt install gtk2-engines-murrine gtk2-engines-pixbuf

ArchLinux:

pacman -S gtk-engine-murrine gtk-engines

Installation Depends requirement

• sassc.
• optipng.
• inkscape.
• 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

Fedora/RedHat distros:

dnf install sassc optipng inkscape glib2-devel

Ubuntu/Mint/Debian distros:

sudo apt install sassc optipng inkscape libglib2.0-dev-bin

Debian 10:

sudo apt install sassc optipng inkscape libcanberra-gtk-module libglib2.0-dev libxml2-utils

ArchLinux:

pacman -S sassc optipng inkscape

Other:

1. Search for the dependencies in your distribution's repository or install the dependencies from source.
2. For CentOS 8 users: the sassc package doesn't exist in EPEL 8 or any other main repositories. Download the RPM manually from older EPEL repositories or build from source.

Installation

From source

After all the dependencies are installed, you can Run

./install.sh

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

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, --trans	Run a dialg to change the panel transparency (Default: 85%)
-s, --size	Run a dialg 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

If you want to change the nautilus sidebar width size, (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

If you want to change the panel transparency, then you can run:

./install.sh -t

If you want to remove all installed themes, then you can run:

./install.sh -r

If you want to remove installed gdm theme, then you can run:

./install.sh -r -g

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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