JGD-Black is a theme collection for GTK applications and Openbox. This collection will style your desktop with glass buttons, pure black top level menus, subtle gray shadows and borders.
With this theme package, you get GTK 2, GTK 3.20 and Openbox themes.
- Download the latest file from the downloads directory
- Open a Terminal application
- Navigate to your Downloads folder in the terminal (usually titled Downloads). Type
cd Downloads
- Type
ls
and look forjgd-black-month-day-year.tar.gz
, where month, day and year represent when the file was last updated - Untar the file by typing
tar -zxvf jgd-black-01-01-17.tar.gz
, substituting the current version's date numbers - type
cd
again to get to your home folder; typels -a
and see if there is a .themes directory - If one does not exist, create one:
mkdir .themes
cd Downloads
cp JGD-Black ../.themes
- Follow steps 1-5 above
cd /usr/share/themes
sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/JGD-Black /usr/share/themes
- Enter sudo password
ls
to check that the theme folder is present
JGD-Black is available in the Arch User Repository. The easiest way to install it is with a pacman frontend which accesses the AUR, such as Yay.
yay -S jgd-black
Once installed, you can use a theme switching application such as LXAppearance or Gnome Tweak Tool to change the theme to JGD-Black
JGD-Black GTK2 requires the Clearlooks theme engine. To install from the command line:
apt-get install gtk-engines
sudo pacman -S gtk-engines
To request that JGD-Black use the dark variant of the theme, open the file found in your-home-folder/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and add or adjust the following:
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=1
The dark variant will only apply to the GTK3 theme.
Note: The GTK3 version of this theme only works in version 3.20 and above.