Vertex - Theme

Vertex is a theme for GTK 3, GTK 2, Gnome-Shell and Cinnamon. It supports GTK 3 and GTK 2 based desktop environments like Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate, XFCE, Budgie, Pantheon, etc.

Themes for the Browsers Chrome/Chromium and Firefox are included, too.

The theme comes with three variants to choose from. The default variant with dark header-bars, a light variant, and a dark variant.

Requirements

• At least Gnome/GTK 3.10. This theme works with all versions up to 3.18.
• The gnome-themes-standard package
• The murrine engine. This has different names depending on your distro.
  • gtk-engine-murrine (Arch Linux)
  • gtk2-engines-murrine (Debian, Ubuntu, elementary OS)
  • gtk-murrine-engine (Fedora)
  • gtk2-engine-murrine (openSUSE)
  • gtk-engines-murrine (Gentoo)

Main distributions that meet these requirements are

• Arch Linux and Arch Linux based distros
• Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10 and 15.04
• elementary OS Freya
• Linux Mint 17.1
• Debian Jessie, Testing or Unstable
• Gentoo
• Fedora 20, 21 and 22
• OpenSuse 13.1, 13.2 and Tumbleweed

Derivatives of these distributions should work, aswell.

If your distribution is not listed, please check the requirements yourself.

Installation

Important: Remove all older versions of the theme from your system before you proceed any further.

sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{Vertex,Vertex-Dark,Vertex-Light,Vertex-Gnome-Shell,Vertex-Gnome-Shell-3.16,Vertex-Cinnamon}
rm -rf ~/.local/share/themes/{Vertex,Vertex-Dark,Vertex-Light,Vertex-Gnome-Shell,Vertex-Gnome-Shell-3.16,Vertex-Cinnamon}
rm -rf ~/.themes/{Vertex,Vertex-Dark,Vertex-Light,Vertex-Gnome-Shell,Vertex-Gnome-Shell-3.16,Vertex-Cinnamon}

Packages

Prebuilt packages for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE are available at

software.opensuse.org/download…

Arch Linux users can install the theme from the AUR

aur.archlinux.org/packages/ver…

aur.archlinux.org/packages/ver…

Manual Installation

To build the theme you need

• autoconf
• automake
• pkg-config or pkgconfig if you use Fedora
• libgtk-3-dev for Debian based distros or gtk3-devel for RPM based distros
• git if you want to clone the source directory

If your distribution doesn't ship separate development packages you just need GTK 3 instead of the -dev packages.

Install the theme with the following commands

1. Get the source

If you want to install the latest version from git, clone the repository with

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

If you want to install the latest stable release, run

git clone git://github.com/horst3180/vertex-theme.git --depth 1 && cd vertex-theme
git fetch --tags git checkout $(git describe --tags `git rev-list --tags --max-count=1`) 

or download it from github.com/horst3180/Vertex-th… and cd into the extracted archive

2. Build and install the theme

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

Other options to pass to autogen.sh are

--disable-cinnamon            disable Cinnamon support
--disable-dark                disable Vertex Dark support
--disable-gnome-shell         disable GNOME Shell support
--disable-gtk2                disable GTK2 support
--disable-gtk3                disable GTK3 support
--disable-light               disable Vertex Light support
--disable-metacity            disable Metacity support
--disable-unity               disable Unity support
--disable-xfwm                disable XFWM support
--with-gnome=<version>        build the theme for a specific Gnome version (3.10, 3.12, 3.14, 3.16, 3.18)
                              Note: Normally the correct version is detected automatically
                              and this option should not be needed. 

After the installation is complete you can activate the theme with gnome-tweak-tool or a similar program by selecting Vertex, Vertex-Light or Vertex-Dark.

Uninstall the theme

Run

sudo make uninstall 

from the installation directory, or

sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{Vertex,Vertex-Dark,Vertex-Light} 

Extras

The extra directory in the source directory contains Chrome/Chromium and Firefox themes, a fix for the Ubuntu-Software-Center when using the dark theme and an alternative metacity theme, which hides the window titles of maximized windows (doesn't work on Gnome 3.16 and up).

To install the Chrome/Chromium theme go to the extra/Chrome folder and drag and drop the Vertex.crx or Vertex-light.crx file into the Chrome/Chromium window. The source of the Chrome themes is located in the source "Chrome/source" folder.

To install the Firefox theme copy the extra/Firefox/Vertex/chrome folder to ~/.mozilla/firefox/yourprofile.default/ and restart Firefox. Make sure that the tools>options>content>colors use system colors or preferences>content>colors use system colors checkbox is unchecked.
Themes for the variants Vertex-Light and Vertex-Dark are in the Firefox folder, too. Installation is the same.

To install the alternative metacity theme, copy the Vertex_alt_metacity folder to /usr/share/themes and select it as window theme.

To install the Plank theme, copy the extra/Vertex-Plank folder to ~/.local/share/plank/themes or to /usr/share/plank/themes for system-wide use. Now open the Plank preferences window by executing plank --preferences from a terminal and select Vertex-Plank as the theme.

Troubleshooting

If you get artifacts like black or invisible backgrounds under Unity, disable overlay scrollbars with

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

Ubuntu-Software-Center doesn't play nice with dark themes. If you are using Vertex-Dark under Ubuntu the software center will have unreadable text. To fix this, install the Ubuntu-Software-Center fix. Instructions and relevant files are included in the extra/Ubuntu-Software-Center folder.

Bug reporting

If you find a bug, please report it at github.com/horst3180/Vertex-th…

Other Info

Wallpaper: Alone by memovaslg
Icon theme: Vertex Icons
Launcher icons: White Pixel Icons by darkdawg

Licence: GPLv3


Changelog

2014-07-25
Initial release

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Changelog has been purged because it was too long, complete changelog here
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2015-03-25
Add support for Gnome 3.16
    Port Gnome-Shell 3.16 theme to Sass
    Dash got redesigned due to 3.16 changes
    New hover state for window buttons
Minor bugfixes

2015-04-10
Gnome-Shell theme fixes
Nicer Xfce and Mate panel style
Better Xfwm theme

2015-04-18
Migrate the project to autotools to simplify the installation process (kudos to James Geboski)
Small bugfixes

2015-05-25
Add a Plank theme
Fix gnome-shell crashes on non-accelerated systems
Make gala-notifications light (except in the dark theme)
Bugfixes

2015-09-23
Add support for Gnome 3.18

2016-03-29