HowTo: Install Arc, a beautiful GTK theme in GNOME

Alejandro (a.k.a KZKG^Gaara)

2 minutes

I was seeing an article yesterday in OMGUbuntu about a beautiful GTK theme called Arc, which has transparency effects and a design similar to what we can find in OS X Yosemite.

Next I will show you how to install it, in my case, using a virtual machine with Antergos and of course, GNOME. In theory it is compatible with other GTK Desktop Environments, so it should work on ElementaryOS, for example.

Let's see the final result which will be:

Arc

If you look, behind the Files / Nautilus side panel or whatever you want to call it, you see the calculator buttons, just like on the back of the toolbar.

Arc installation

In the case of Antergos, if we follow the steps of Arc creator, we don't have to do much, since all the necessary dependencies are installed. If they use another distribution like Ubuntu or Debian, they must have the following packages installed:

  • Gnome / GTK 3.14 or 3.16
  • The package gtk2-engines-pixbuf if we use Debian / Ubuntu and derivatives.
  • The Murrine engine, which can change its name depending on the distribution:
    • gtk-engine-murrine (Arch Linux)
    • gtk2-engines-murrine (Debian, Ubuntu, elementary OS)
    • gtk-murrine-engine (Fedora)
    • gtk2-engine-murrine (openSUSE)
    • gtk-engines-murrine (Gentoo)

In addition, we must install the following packages:

  • autoconf
  • auto make
  • pkg-config o pkgconfig if using Fedora
  • libgtk-3-dev on Debian-based distributions or gtk3-devel for RPM distros.
  • git

Having this installed, we open a terminal and execute:

git clone https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme --depth 1 && cd arc-theme

And once it's done:

./autogen.sh --prefix = / usr sudo make install

And that's it. If all went well, we can choose the new GTK theme (and the theme for GNOME SHELL), using gnome-tweak-tools.

GNOME_Tweak_Tools

And that's it.

Extras

The author also provides us within the Extra folder of his repository on Github an extension for the Google Chrome theme, and tells us that if we have problems in Unity with the scroll bars, let's run in the console:

gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

And of course, if we want to uninstall it, we just have to execute:

sudo make uninstall

inside the folder where we compile the theme or

sudo rm -rf / usr / share / themes / Arc

And to finish another capture:

Arc2