Gruvbox Dark
Gruvbox Light
Gruvbox Material is a GTK theme based on the colour palette of the Gruvbox Material for Neovim by @Sainnhe, the Graphite GTK theme by @VinceLiuice and the Suru Plus icons by @gusbemacbe.
The idea was born from the need for GTK themes that match the most prominent colour palettes of Neovim code editor and Tiling Window Manager, such as Xmonad, Awesome, DWM, etc, which use these colour schemes to give a uniform and unique look to working environments. See on Reddit: r/unixporn.
The colour palettes in this series of themes are the ones I have used the most in my setup for Neovim, Xmonad and Gnome DE, so creating themes started as something personal that I then decided to share thanks to several people asking me to share them because they seemed good, I hope you find them useful and make your desktops look good too.
Make sure Murrine Engine and gnome-themes-extra or gnome-themes-standard packages are already installed on your distro
The names might vary depending on your distro, for e.g: On Fedora it is: gtk-murrine-engine, OpenSUSE: gtk2-engine-murrine, Arch: gtk-engine-murrine, Debian and derivatives: gtk2-engines-murrine
Works in gnome 40, 41, 42, 43
How to install:
- Download the file from here (in the files tab)
- unzip it
- cd into the where-ever u installed it then
cp -r Gruvbox* /usr/share/themes/ mkdir ~/.config/gtk-4.0 && cp -r Gruvbox*/* ~/.config/gtk-4.0- Get (and enable) the user-themes extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/19/user-themes/
- Download the "tweaks" or "gnome tweaks" app
- in tweaks, under appearance>shell u can select gruvbox
- in tweaks under appearance>legacy applications, u can select gruvbox
If you use flatpak apps, u can also apply the theme to those:
(make sure git is installed, it usually is by default)
git clone https://github.com/refi64/stylepakcd stylepak && sudo ./style install-system NAME-OF-THEME-HERE
the name of the theme is the exact name of the folder u downloaded, for example, Gruvbox-Dark-B-LB
(stylepak used instead of overrides, as the latter rarely works)
Some people have told me that they find the names a bit complicated and confusing because of the abbreviations I have put next to the name of each theme.
I have abbreviated the themes because I don't like to put such long names like: Material-Deep-Ocean-Borderless-Legacy-Buttons-Gnome, Admittedly, it is a very explicit name, but it is a ridiculously long name. so I decided to abbreviate the different versions for each theme, like Tokyonight-Dark-BL-LB, so to clarify the abbreviations here is a small table.
| Abbreviation example | Explanation of abbreviations |
|---|---|
| Theme-Name-B | Theme with Border decoration |
| Theme-Name-B-LB | Theme with Border decoration and Legacy Buttons in Windows |
| Theme-Name-B-GS | Theme with Border decoration for Gnome Shell |
| Theme-Name-BL | Theme Borderless decoration |
| Theme-Name-BL-LB | Theme Borderless decoration and Legacy Buttons in Windows |
| Theme-Name-BL-GS | Theme Borderless decoration for Gnome Shell |
| Neovim Colorschemes for GTK | Source | Package |
|---|---|---|
| Catppuccin GTK Theme | Github | Pling |
| Everforest GTK Theme | Github | Pling |
| Gruvbox Material GTK Theme | Github | Pling |
| Kanagawa GTK Theme | Github | Pling |
| Material Deep Ocean GTK Theme | Github | Pling |
| Material Palenight GTK Theme | Github | Pling |
| Nightfox Dusk GTK Theme | Github | Pling |
| Rosé Pine GTK Theme | Github | Pling |
| Tokyonight GTK Theme | Github | Pling |
Thanks to @f1yn for the solution to the active and inactive borders in the new version of Cinnamon which no longer uses Metacity.
Thanks to @telometto for the alternative for the application of themes in Flatpak.
You can donate to support the development of these themes.