oomox theme designer

Graphical application for generating different color variations of a Numix-based and Materia (ex-Flat-Plat) themes (GTK2, GTK3), Gnome-Colors and Archdroid icon themes.

Installation:

• Arch Linux, Manjaro
• CentOS, Fedora, Mageia
• Slackware
• Ubuntu
• Other distributions

Other topics:

• Using with tiling WMs
• Spotify
• Review articles/Usage instructions
• Demo video

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Latest Oomox GTK theme screenshots 🔗

Arch Linux:

Install

pacaur -S oomox-git

Open the GUI

oomox-gui

CentOS, Fedora, Mageia

Oomox can be installed by using a third party COPR repository:

sudo dnf copr enable tcg/themes
sudo dnf install oomox

Slackware

There is a slackbuild: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/desktop/oomox/

Ubuntu

For Ubuntu 17.04+ you can download oomox.deb package here: https://github.com/actionless/oomox/releases

sudo dpkg -i ./oomox.deb
sudo apt install -f

For older Ubuntu releases install the dependencies manually and next follow general installation instructions below.

sudo apt install libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libxml2-utils python3-gi gtk2-engines-murrine bc sed zip inkscape imagemagick optipng parallel

And install sassc>=3.4: https://askubuntu.com/questions/849057/how-to-install-libsass-on-ubuntu-16-04

Other distributions:

Prerequisites

You need to have python3-gobject binding and those executables:

• glib-compile-schemas
• gdk-pixbuf-pixdata
• sassc>=3.4
• gtk3>=3.18
• bc
• sed
• zip - optional, for spotify theme
• inkscape - optional, for gnome-colors icons and Materia theme
• imagemagick - optional, for gnome-colors icons
• optipng - optional, for Materia theme
• parallel - optional, for Materia theme

For GTK2 you need murrine engine which can be not installed by default.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/actionless/oomox.git --recursive
cd oomox
# if you need to generate French locale:
make -f po.mk install

GUI

./gui.sh

CLI:

./gtk-theme/change_color.sh ./colors/gnome-colors/shiki-noble

next select oomox-current in your appearance config tool (for example, lxappearance)

Icons:

For icons you need to have inkscape and imagemagick installed.

To generate gnome-colors iconset with the selected colorscheme:

./gnome-colors-icon-theme/change_color.sh ./colors/gnome-colors/shiki-noble

next select oomox-current in your appearance config tool (for example, lxappearance)

Spotify:

./oomoxify/oomoxify.sh ./colors/gnome-colors/shiki-noble

Also you can normalize font weight with -w argument, see -h for usage.

Using with tiling WMs:

To resolve borders/shadow problem in tiling window managers create/append to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:

.window-frame, .window-frame:backdrop {
    box-shadow: 0 0 0 black;
    border-style: none;
    margin: 0;
    border-radius: 0;
}
.titlebar {
    border-radius: 0;
}
window decoration {
    margin: 0;
    border: 0;
}

Review articles

To learn more about using the application you can check these articles:

• https://delightlylinux.wordpress.com/2016/08/22/customize-theme-colors-with-oomox/
• http://www.webupd8.org/2016/05/easily-create-your-own-numix-based-gtk.html
• http://www.webupd8.org/2016/06/tool-to-customize-numix-theme-colors.html

Demo video

One of the users, Spatry, made this cool demo video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh5TuIYQ6jo