Catppuccin GTK RPM

RPM build of the great theme produced by https://github.com/catppuccin/gtk.

Installing the RPM puts the theme in /usr/share/themes/. Available RPMs can be found in in Releases:

• catppuccin-gtk (All the flavors and colors!)
• catppuccin-gtk-Frappe
• catppuccin-gtk-Frappe-<specific color>
• catppuccin-gtk-Mocha
• catppuccin-gtk-Mocha-<specific color>
• catppuccin-gtk-Macchiato
• catppuccin-gtk-Macchiato-<specific color>
• catppuccin-gtk-Latte
• catppuccin-gtk-Latte-<specific color>

Build

To build the RPMs yourself, you need a Linux distro that uses RPMs.

Run configure.sh to install prerequisite build tools.

Then issue the build command:

make rpm

Usage

After installing an RPM, start using the theme. This has only been tested on GNOME 41 so YMMV:

1. Install the tools that allow you to customize the theme:

    yum install gnome-tweaks gnome-extensions-app gnome-shell-extension-user-theme
   

2. Log out/back in. TBD why this is needed, but it updates the GNOME Extensions app to see the user-theme extension just installed.

3. Open GNOME Extensions app and toggle the button to allow User Themes.

4. Open GNOME Tweaks app and under the Appearance tab, update the Applications Theme and Shell Theme to the one you just installed.

5. Enjoy Catppuccin GTK :)

6. Bonus: Apply the theme to GDM too. The following steps are in install-gdm-theme.sh too.

• Backup current theme file

      sudo cp -av /usr/share/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-theme.gresource{,~}

• Compile new theme:

  THEME_NAME="$(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme | sed "s/'//g")"
  THEME_SRC_DIR="/usr/share/themes/$THEME_NAME/gnome-shell"
  sudo glib-compile-resources --target="/usr/share/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-theme.gresource" --sourcedir="$THEME_SRC_DIR" "$THEME_SRC_DIR/gnome-shell-theme.gresource.xml"

• Log out/in

7. More bonus: Change the GDM logo

• Get an icon file that's 256x256 or smaller. Put it in /usr/share/pixmaps/. You can use cat.png from this project.

• Create new file for the gdm user's dconf settings. Make sure it has this content:

  # /etc/dconf/profile/gdm
  user-db:user
  system-db:gdm
  file-db:/usr/share/gdm/greeter-dconf-defaults
  

• Define the keyfile to set the logo:

  # /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/02-logo
  [org/gnome/login-screen]
  logo='/usr/share/pixmaps/cat.png'
  

• Update the dconf database

  sudo dconf update
  

• Log out/in