MyAdwaita - Personalization of the GNOME Adwaita Theme

A personal theme for both GTK 2 and GTK 3 applications, using dark mode, like old-school Zenburn, but emphasizing just three colors: dark gray, not-quite white, and alien-fruit-salad blue.

Installation

On GNU/Linux systems:

• Clone to ~/.themes/MyAdwaita.
• Set ~/.gtkrc-2.0 to include "/home/USERNAME/.themes/MyAdwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc".
• Use gnome-tweaks (e.g. sudo apt install gnome-tweaks) to set GTK 3 theme.

Changes are often picked up immediately with new windows, but it's useful to restart the desktop session when verifying changes. For GTK 2, it's useful to have a tool such as gtk-chtheme (e.g. sudo apt install gtk-chtheme) to hit "Apply" on the selected theme.

Development

For GTK 2, edit theme files in place.

For GTK 3, edit Sass .scss files to compile to gtk.css. A single-command build is available with GNU Make, just run make in the gtk-3.0 directory (make -C gtk-3.0). Alternatively, see the gtk README for guidance on build instructions.

Ruby is required for Sass.

Note that theme personalization forces dark mode; the light variant is unused.

Upstream

• gtk-2.0 theme is a clone of Adwaita-dark from Ubuntu 18.04.
• gtk-3.0 theme originates from gtk source at tag 3.22.14.