I would love to try this theme, looks like it's one of the maybe four themes with good contrast and isn't "blue black" but after copying to ~/.themes or /usr/share/themes none of the variants show up in xfce's appearance settings.
The themes are under the "themes" folder in the archive, if you get the xfwm one.
With the "main" archive, they're under the "master" folder.
There are 5 different theme variants.
Yes I understand that. I have been installing themes all day long and this and all other marwaita themes are the only ones that do not appear.
XFWM themes show up just fine in the "Window Manager" settings program, GTK themes do not show up in "Appearance" or anywhere else. I extracted every folder within the archives to ~/.themes which did not work. /usr/share/themes also does not.
Hi, author of the xfwm theme here.
(A) You need both archives from the top right Download dropdown button on this page. master.zip contains Marwaita Pop_Os's GTK themes. Unpack it, and copy every folder whose name starts with "Marwaita" and has "Pop_Os" on the end into your hidden ~/.themes folder (you can browse to that with Thunar (Ctrl L), or create it first (Ctrl Shift N) if needed). The 5 folders to copy all have names like "Marwaita Color Pop_Os".
(B) Xfce4 users additionally need marwaita-for-xfwm-main too. Download it, unpack it, and copy the 5 folders with "Marwaita-Xfwm" in their names from its "themes" subdir into your ~/.themes alongside the GTK themes. The Xfwm folders all have names like "Marwaita-Xfwm-Alt".
(C) You will have 10 folders in total, 5 from each project, and you need to do a bit of matching up for Xfwm to make it work right. The same 5 Marwaita-Xfce themes will work for all the Marwaita GTK variants, e.g. Manjaro or Zorin, however. See the docs at https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1877124 or the linked gitlab project.
(D) Window manager themes are applied in the Window Manager part of the Xfce settings. GTK themes are applied in Appearance instead. You need to restart both Appearance and Window Manager before new themes will show up in them.
As I stated, I already did all of this several times over, and this is the -only- theme out of probably two dozen that hasn't worked. I ended up deciding to continue using Fluent on both of my XFCE devices so I would request that no one else reply to me if all anyone can do is explain something I knew from the beginning.
8it's very very cool though i don't like that highlight a folder with default color theme (darkcyan) results in a sort of green-ish color because of the transparency of the yellow...could the highlight color be changed? otherwise, what folder's color do you suggest?
10A great theme with clean titlebar buttons and nice roundness.
Based on the dark flavor, I manage to create my Solarized Dark flavor of it.
Many thanks for doing and sharing!
Could you share your solarized theme? I'm currently using SolArc Dark. It's the closest to the kind of solarized theme I want, but it has a few minor issues.
I would gladly share it if I would still have it. But I eventually switched back to the standard Pop-Dark theme that comes with Pop!_OS. While I used to use Solarized Dark scheme, I later discovered that so much green is not that friendly on the long run.
9One of the things you notice with the real Pop! OS theme is that it uses its teal highlight almost everywhere, and reserves its orange secondary highlight for only a few very limited things. Marwaita Pop_os uses the orange almost everywhere instead, and it looks very different.
I don't yet know if it would fit with your build scripting, but I wonder if you could have another look at this? I'm afraid I don't know what their logic is for orange vs. teal highlights, unfortunately.
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I would love to try this theme, looks like it's one of the maybe four themes with good contrast and isn't "blue black" but after copying to ~/.themes or /usr/share/themes none of the variants show up in xfce's appearance settings.
The themes are under the "themes" folder in the archive, if you get the xfwm one. With the "main" archive, they're under the "master" folder. There are 5 different theme variants.
Yes I understand that. I have been installing themes all day long and this and all other marwaita themes are the only ones that do not appear. XFWM themes show up just fine in the "Window Manager" settings program, GTK themes do not show up in "Appearance" or anywhere else. I extracted every folder within the archives to ~/.themes which did not work. /usr/share/themes also does not.
Hi, author of the xfwm theme here. (A) You need both archives from the top right Download dropdown button on this page. master.zip contains Marwaita Pop_Os's GTK themes. Unpack it, and copy every folder whose name starts with "Marwaita" and has "Pop_Os" on the end into your hidden ~/.themes folder (you can browse to that with Thunar (Ctrl L), or create it first (Ctrl Shift N) if needed). The 5 folders to copy all have names like "Marwaita Color Pop_Os". (B) Xfce4 users additionally need marwaita-for-xfwm-main too. Download it, unpack it, and copy the 5 folders with "Marwaita-Xfwm" in their names from its "themes" subdir into your ~/.themes alongside the GTK themes. The Xfwm folders all have names like "Marwaita-Xfwm-Alt". (C) You will have 10 folders in total, 5 from each project, and you need to do a bit of matching up for Xfwm to make it work right. The same 5 Marwaita-Xfce themes will work for all the Marwaita GTK variants, e.g. Manjaro or Zorin, however. See the docs at https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1877124 or the linked gitlab project. (D) Window manager themes are applied in the Window Manager part of the Xfce settings. GTK themes are applied in Appearance instead. You need to restart both Appearance and Window Manager before new themes will show up in them.
As I stated, I already did all of this several times over, and this is the -only- theme out of probably two dozen that hasn't worked. I ended up deciding to continue using Fluent on both of my XFCE devices so I would request that no one else reply to me if all anyone can do is explain something I knew from the beginning.
We are just trying to help, and you didn't even state what distro
You must extract the base theme, even if you don't use it, eg you want to use the Alt, Color or Dark ones.
I'm under Linux Mint 21 XFCE and no problem with seeing the theme in the Appearance setting.
Are you actually extracting the files from the archive into the destination folder?
9 Good work, but I would prefer to be able to change the primary orange color.
8 it's very very cool though i don't like that highlight a folder with default color theme (darkcyan) results in a sort of green-ish color because of the transparency of the yellow...could the highlight color be changed? otherwise, what folder's color do you suggest?
Hi, I can't download. It give me a message about the website's certificate.
10 A great theme with clean titlebar buttons and nice roundness. Based on the dark flavor, I manage to create my Solarized Dark flavor of it. Many thanks for doing and sharing!
Could you share your solarized theme? I'm currently using SolArc Dark. It's the closest to the kind of solarized theme I want, but it has a few minor issues.
I would gladly share it if I would still have it. But I eventually switched back to the standard Pop-Dark theme that comes with Pop!_OS. While I used to use Solarized Dark scheme, I later discovered that so much green is not that friendly on the long run.
7 7 good
9 One of the things you notice with the real Pop! OS theme is that it uses its teal highlight almost everywhere, and reserves its orange secondary highlight for only a few very limited things. Marwaita Pop_os uses the orange almost everywhere instead, and it looks very different. I don't yet know if it would fit with your build scripting, but I wonder if you could have another look at this? I'm afraid I don't know what their logic is for orange vs. teal highlights, unfortunately.
10 10 the best
10 10 the best
9 excellent
10 10 the best
9 9 excellent
9 9 excellent
8 8 great
9 9 excellent Love it, thanks!