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.
HitoriDots1
This is the regular Dots Black theme but with the Hitorimenu-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.
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.
- 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.
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.
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.