Canta is a flat Material Design theme for GTK 3, GTK 2 and Gnome-Shell which supports GTK 3 and GTK 2 based desktop environments like Gnome, Unity, Budgie, Pantheon, XFCE, Mate, etc.
This theme is based on materia gtk theme of nana-4. Thanks nana-4 sincerely for his great job!
materia gtk theme: https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme
- GTK2 engine Murrine 0.98.1.1 or later.
- GTK2 pixbuf engine or the gtk(2)-engines package.
Fedora/RedHat distros:
yum install gtk-murrine-engine gtk2-engines
Ubuntu/Mint/Debian distros:
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine gtk2-engines-pixbuf
ArchLinux:
pacman -S gtk-engine-murrine gtk-engines
Other: Search for the engines in your distributions repository or install the engines from source.
Open the terminal at current directory.
Run
./install.sh
Usage: ./Install [OPTIONS...]
| OPTIONS: | |
|---|---|
| -d, --dest | Specify theme destination directory (Default: $HOME/.themes) |
| -n, --name | Specify theme name (Default: Canta) |
| -c, --color | Specify theme bright variant(s) [standard/dark/light] (Default: All variants) |
| -t, --theme | Specify theme color variant(s) [standard/blue/indigo] (Default: All variants) |
| -s, --size | Specify theme size variant [standard/compact] (Default: All variants) |
| -o, --ordinary | Install theme without nautilus background image |
| -g, --gdm | Install GDM theme |
| -i, --icon | Install icon theme |
| -h, --help | Show this help |
FOR EXAMPLE
./install.sh -c light -s compact -r square
Install light compact square version of Canta theme
./install.sh -d $HOME/.tmp -b
Install Canta theme with nautilus background image in $HOME/.tmp
You can install the theme from the Snap Store оr by running:
sudo snap install canta-themes
To connect the theme to an app run:
sudo snap connect [other snap]:gtk-3-themes canta-themes:gtk-3-themes
sudo snap connect [other snap]:icon-themes canta-themes:icon-themes
To connect the theme to all apps which have available plugs to gtk-common-themes you can run:
Canta icon theme use numix-icon-theme-circle icon theme for Inherits,
so if you want a better experience you should install numix-circle first
numix-icon-theme-circle : https://github.com/numixproject/numix-icon-theme-circle
(Just install numix-circle nomal, Canta icon theme will use its icons resources for missing part!)
./install.sh -i
