XFCE_THEMES

Some window panel themes for XFCE as listed on pling.

Looking for XFCE themes online I stumbled across this website titled "Top 20 Best Xfce Themes".

This is where I discovered the Hitori and Dots window panel themes. Although I was not that impressed by them, the Dots theme removed the application icon from the window panel and the Hitori theme was more blue than black.

So I made some variations where I combined the two:

• HitoriDots1 This is the regular Dots Black theme but with the Hitori menu-active.png so that the application icon is now displayed and at a regular scale.
• HitoriDots2 This is the regular Dots Black theme but with an easier on the eye colour pallet that more resembles the original Hitori theme.
• HitoriDots3 This is HitoriDots1 but the window panel buttons only light up when hovered over.
• HitoriDots4 This is HitoriDots3 but now the buttons also have small graphics indicators when they light up.

The original themes are included in the repository for comparison and reference.

Licensing:

Both Hitori and Dots themes had been released as "GPLv2 or later" on xfce-look.org. Although I have since noticed Dots Black specifies "GPL-3.0+" in the themerc file. Technically all of the image assets are from the Dots theme and the menu-active.png taken from Hitori is so basic and only retains its original image dimensions and not colour shade... The license should continue as the Dots license GPL-3.0+. The themerc file is also taken from the Hitori theme but again this is just a basic configuration file. Either way, the licencing would default to 3.0+ because Hitori is released as 2.0+ meaning that it accepts any higher version GPL license.

Notes:

• Alternatively, Numix[2] window panel theme is also pretty good.
• When it comes to Desktop Icon and Appearance themes, I really like the elementary-xfce-darker icons and the Greybird-dark appearance.
• Trimage was used to compress the PNG files to something more suitable in size.
• Window Manager Tweaks xfwm4-tweaks-settings can be useful.

Installation

Copy these themes into either: ~/.local/share/themes/ or /usr/share/themes/
e.g: ~/.local/share/themes/HitoriDots4

Or for desktop icon packs: ~/.local/share/icons/ or /usr/share/icons/

Then you can use the Window Manager xfwm4-settings application to select between themes or the Appearance xfce4-appearance-settings application to select between desktop icons and appearances.

Button Layout

By default, the window panel buttons are left-aligned in the respective themerc file: button_layout=CHM|O
however, some people may prefer right-aligned: button_layout=O|HMC

More information about button layouts can be found here.

Alternatively you can override these button layout settings using the Window Manager xfwm4-settings application.