Numix Solarised is a fork of the original Numix GTK+ theme from the Numix Project. It is a modern, flat theme with dark solarised colours. Support for Gnome, Unity, XFCE and Openbox may be dropped anytime soon as I am using a tiling window manager.
This fork is a successor to mkrnr/Numix-Solarized-Dark. Creating it anew was necessary due to problems introduced by GTK+ 3.20. Moreover, the theme tries to use less visual space. This is done in order to maximise the amount of visible content on the screen while remaining Numix' pleasant look.
Currently, only the dark scheme was solarised as this is the only one I personally need. If you want to solarise the light version as well, feel free to send me a pull request.
First, you need to compile the theme using the Sass
compiler. To install Sass, install ruby and the gem command using your
distro's package manager. Then install sass with the gem command,
gem install sass
You'll also need the following commands in your path to generate the gresource binary. Install them using your distro's package manager.
glib-compile-schemasgdk-pixbuf-pixdata
After installing all the dependencies, switch to the cloned directory and, run the following in Terminal,
make
sudo make installTo set the theme, modify your $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0:
gtk-theme-name="Numix Solarised"
Furthermore, edit $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini so that it contains the
following lines:
gtk-theme-name=Numix Solarised
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=true
You probably also want to export the following variable so that QT applications use GTK+ 2 themes:
QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=GTK+
If you want to hack on the theme, make sure you have the inotifywait command
available, which is used for watching and automatically building the files. To
start watching for changes, run the following,
make watchIf you change any assets, you'll need to regenerate the gtk.gresource.xml
and gtk.gresource files. You can use
grrr to do it easily.
- GTK+ 3.16 or above
- Murrine theme engine
Report bugs or contribute at GitHub.
Licence: GPL-3.0+