Installation

Important: Remove all older versions of the theme from your system before you proceed any further.

sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{Arc,Arc-Darker,Arc-Dark}
rm -rf ~/.local/share/themes/{Arc,Arc-Darker,Arc-Dark}
rm -rf ~/.themes/{Arc,Arc-Darker,Arc-Dark}

Packages

Prebuilt packages for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE are available at
http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3AHorst3180&package=arc-theme

A non-transparent version of the theme is available here
http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3AHorst3180&package=arc-theme-solid

Note: elementary OS Freya users can install the package for Ubuntu 15.04

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Arch Linux users can install the theme from the AUR

Official Releases: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-theme-arc/

Development Releases: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-theme-arc-git/

Note: If you're having trouble with the AUR packages please email the package maintainer at zach@zach-adams.com before creating an issue.

Manual Installation

To build the theme you'll need

• autoconf
• automake
• pkg-config or pkgconfig if you use Fedora
• libgtk-3-dev for Debian based distros or gtk3-devel for RPM based distros
• git if you want to clone the source directory

If your distributions doesn't ship separate development packages you just need GTK 3 instead of the -dev packages.

Install the theme with the following commands

1. Get the source

If you want to install the latest version from git, clone the repository with

git clone https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme --depth 1 && cd arc-theme

2. Build and install the theme

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
sudo make install

Other options to pass to autogen.sh are

--disable-transparency     disable transparency in the GTK3 theme
--disable-light            disable Arc Light support
--disable-darker           disable Arc Darker support
--disable-dark             disable Arc Dark support
--disable-cinnamon         disable Cinnamon support
--disable-gnome-shell      disable GNOME Shell support
--disable-gtk2             disable GTK2 support
--disable-gtk3             disable GTK3 support
--disable-metacity         disable Metacity support
--disable-unity            disable Unity support
--disable-xfwm             disable XFWM support
--disable-xfce-notify      disable XFCE Notify support

--with-gnome=<version>     build the theme for a specific Gnome version (3.14, 3.16, 3.18)
                           Note: Normally the correct version is detected automatically and this
                           option should not be needed.

After the installation is complete you can activate the theme with gnome-tweak-tool or a similar program by selecting Arc, Arc-Darker or Arc-Dark as Window/GTK+ theme and Arc or Arc-Dark as Gnome-Shell and Xfce-Notify theme.

Uninstall the theme

Run

sudo make uninstall

from the same directory as this README resides in, or

sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{Arc,Arc-Darker,Arc-Dark}