Yaru-Colors

GTK3 Themes gnome gnome-shell gtk3 ubuntu yaru

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/Jannomag/Yaru-Colors

Description:

Yaru-Colors is a theme project to bringt different colors to Ubuntu's awesome Yaru theme.

Testers needed:
Please check my github! I added support for gdm3 theming. It's a bit complicated as it seems. I tested it under Ubuntu 20.10.
It would be nice if y'all check if it works for you, as well...especially on different distributions and Ubuntu versions!

Update 20.10.1:
- Updated every theme to 20.10!
- Added new Wallpapers made by @fer-moreira (They're awesome, thanks a lot!)
- Icons and Cursors are unchanged

Update 20.04.6:
- New color added as user suggestion: Cinnamon - slightly change to Orange, based on Ubuntu Cinnamon Remx
- Tried to add snap support...it's very time consuming so I'm sorry to say, that it'll take a bit longer (help needed / wanted if someone knows how to snap...)
- Last update with 20.04 base. 20.10 is already in the works!
EDIT: - Now with snap support!

Update 20.04.5:
Sorry! I've messed it up again! If you have purple switches in gnome shell, please redownload 20.04.5! I've fixed it...finally and hopefully!
- Added two new colors: Amber and Teal - based on Pop_OS! and Manjaro!
- Rewritten the installer from scratch. It's way shorter and should be easier to use! If there are any issues, please notify me!
- No updated needed if you're using the old colors. They're the same, I've just changed the version number.

Update 20.04.4:
- Finally fixed broken symlinks (this time really.......hopefully). Sorry!

Update 20.04.3:
- Fixed purple colored switches in gnome-shell (like Do-Not-Disturb)
- Fixed broken / dead symlinks for many icons. NOTE: Yaru-Colors icons inherit to stock Yaru! This saves space since I just modified a handful of files. If you're not running Ubuntu (20.04), please download the icons from Yaru's git or via package manager if possible.

Update 20.04.2:
- Modified install and uninstall scripts:
- No installation of Gnome-Shell to /usr/ anymore
- Linking files from /home/ to /usr/ when running install.sh as root for better compatibility
- Reduced icon size by removing unneeded icons, inherit icon theme is set to stock Yaru

-- BIG UPDATE --
Update 20.04.1:
- Added support for Ubuntu 20.04 by using Yaru 20.04 source
- Changed version numbers
- Redone every theme
- NEW icons!!
- NEW Color: Orange
- Changed purple color
- NEW: Cursors!!
- NEW: Unity support (brought by Yaru)
NOTE: The next update will contain less icons to save space and time (and maybe spacetime as well). The next icons packs will have stock Yaru as inherit icon pack! Coming Soon™
PLEASE NOTE: Deepblue is missing! It'll be added, soon!

Special thanks to the developers of Yaru!
(https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru

Yaru-Colors themes conataing following:
- GTK 2 / 3 themes
- Gnome-Shell themes
- Yaru icons (just the necessary ones, inherit is set to stock Yaru)
- Unity theme
- Recolored cursors
- Ubuntu-Dock theme (indicators)

Following changes are made by me:
- GTK2, GTK3+ and Gnome-Shell assets and css files are changed
- For the icon pack I just recolored the folder icons and a few others. The icon theme will use Yaru as inherit theme, which means that my packs just contain recolored icons!
- Recolored the cursors to fit to each color
- Unity assets recolored
- The dock got recolored app running indicators, which are changed by script, not by file

I tried to make the installation as easy as possible.
Therefore I created an installation script called install.sh. (Tutorial below)

The installer will do a backup if something needs to be overwritten (only Ubuntu 18.10+).
It will guide you through everything and allows you to choose what you want to install.

General Information:

Please visit the GitHub page for more screenshots of every theme, issues or suggestions.

Known issues:
Snap apps aren't themed. I don't know if I will add this feature in the future, for now it doesn't work. If someone knows how to get my themes to work, please send me an email!
Most used example: Ubuntu Software
Tiny workaround: Use gtk+ inspector to change the default theme of a snap app to Yaru, this will fix the missing background, when the themes are installed as root (linked to /usr/share/themes)

Tutorial

Installation with script:
1. Run the installer with './install.sh'
2. Follow the installer
Optional:
3. Set your themes with gnome-tweak-tool
4. For gnome-shell you need the User Themes Extension for Gnome-Shell
5. To change the dock indicators, simply run the dock-indicators.sh in src
6. Done

FIY: Because of an older bug in the User Themes extension, on some systems changing the shell theme with a command doesn't work. I've added a fix to this (see Github or the installer for source). This will need root privileges, but the script will ask for this ;)

Removal with script:
1. Rund the uninstaller with './uninstall.sh'
--- if you ran the installer as root, please run this as root, as well.
2. Follow the script
3. Done

Manual install:
1. Copy your desired theme into your desired theme directory (example '/usr/share/themes' or '~/.local/share/themes')
2. Copy you desired icon pack into your desired theme directory (example '/usr/share/icons' or '~/.icons')
4. Enable your themes with gsettings commands or with gnome-tweak-tool
5. To change the dock indicator color (Ubuntu's Dash-To-Dock only), find the hex code for your desired color in the list below and enter following two commands (replace HEXCODE with your color code including #):
'gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock custom-theme-running-dots-color 'HEXCODE' 2> /dev/null'
'gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock custom-theme-running-dots-border-color 'HEXCODE' 2> /dev/null'
(take the color codes from GitHub or do it with the script from there, it'll do it for you...)

Snap install:
1. Install snap package with snap install yaru-colors (TBR)
2. Add the themes to the snap theme list by following 3 commands:

for i in $(snap connections | grep gtk-common-themes:gtk-3-themes | awk '{print $2}'); do sudo snap connect $i yaru-colors:gtk-3-themes; done

for i in $(snap connections | grep gtk-common-themes:gtk-2-themes | awk '{print $2}'); do sudo snap connect $i yaru-colors:gtk-2-themes; done

for i in $(snap connections | grep gtk-common-themes:icon-themes | awk '{print $2}'); do sudo snap connect $i yaru-colors:icon-themes; done

3. Reboot or re-login

KNOWN BUGS
Snap applications, like Ubuntu Software, don't support third party themes. Instead they're using their own theme resource. On Ubuntu, the snap themes are including stock Yaru.
Fix: see above - snap support is out!

Have fun with it!
For any suggestions send me a message here or on Reddit /u/jannomag

Last changelog:

20.04.5 6 months ago

- New install.sh - rewritten from scratch, much easier to use (hopefully)
- Added Amber and Teal

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cjcesconetti
1 year ago

10 Ótimas opções para quem usa Gnome.

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jecsham
1 year ago

10 Super cool, the install script works with no problem running as root, the themes looks amazing... thanks!

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jonloureiro
1 year ago

10 ;B

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facecolor
1 year ago

10 10 the best

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erkadia
1 year ago

9 9 excellent

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fla15
1 year ago

10 10 the best

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fla15
1 year ago

can you add the new theme? light (full light) and xfwm4 theme. (also ubuntu default orange color for Xfce)

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jannomag
1 year ago

I updated the theme!

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jannomag
1 year ago

I'll update the theme soon including the new light theme. But I don't know if I'm able to create it for xfwm4 since I don't have any experience in theming xfce. but I'll try!

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fenyx
1 year ago

10 Great work, thanks a lot for sharing it with us.

Anyway I don't use it yet on my Ubuntu 19.04 because of incompatibility with my very favorite file manager (Double Commander aka. doublecmd-gtk, installed through apt, not by snap or appimage).
I don't understand what makes a dark theme work with this application or not but I see that Starlabs and Adwaita-dark are theming it perfectly. I don't know the difference with a theme like yours nor which files should be included or modified, sorry to be of no help.
Do you think that this issue with Double Commander could be fixed? I would be glad to use this theme as I really like it.

Here's a concrete example:
Yaru Blue Dark > https://i.imgur.com/xzdvKDt.png
StarLabs Dark > https://i.imgur.com/FGDgJHI.png
Yaru Dark (the one included by default with the latest Ubuntu release) > https://i.imgur.com/TYmRY9r.png

Packages installed (all from the official Ubuntu repositories):
gtk2-engines
gtk2-engines-pixbuf
gtk2-engines-murrine
murrine-themes
doublecmd-common
doublecmd-gtk
doublecmd-help-en
doublecmd-plugins

I've posted a message on application's forum to get more informations about the files to customize but nobody answered for now > https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5769

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jannomag
1 year ago

Hi, thanks for the comment. I didn't work on the theme for the last months but I'll try to find out what's wrong here. I just used the original Yaru theme by Ubuntu and modified the colors, nothing else. Maybe it's just an GTK2 issue but I'm not sure about this since I don't have much knowledge about GTK themes. I'll let you know if I could fix it.

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fenyx
1 year ago

The Marwaita GTK3 theme dev and me are actually discussing it and he helped me to point out in terminal output the lack of lines about theme's loading by Double Commander. So the issue seems to come from something else than the theme itself. The investigation is on the way :)

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jannomag
1 year ago

That sounds good. Thanks.
But if the stock yaru theme works with Double Commander but mine does not, it has to be an issue with Yaru-Colors. Maybe you and the Marwaita Dev team find the issue quickly, then I'll fix it.

If I remember correctly, Ubuntu will update the yaru theme with 19.10's release, so I'll update Yaru-Colors as well.

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fenyx
1 year ago

Ok. I will let you know if I find the cause of this issue...

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fenyx
1 year ago

I don't remember exactly why but I kept the habit to copy custom themes to ~/.local/share/themes in my old Ubuntu 16.04. But I have a backup of my old system and while browsing it today I see that I had created a ~/.themes symlink pointing to ~/.local/share/themes. Im'not sure but even then, I may have done this trick to fix the DC theme.

So now I've tried to copy your theme's directory to ~/.themes on my current system, and... the magic happened ! I've now moved all my installed themes to this directory instead of my unclear symlink trick, so the apps already impacted by these themes before the change are still properly styled, and the only app to ignore the system theme is now as beautiful as the rest.

The solution was so simple. And the cause was just... my own mistake. Apologies. Happy end. And thanks again for your work on this theme ! :)

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
Albert Einstein

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jannomag
1 year ago

Puh, and I thought I need to find a workaround by myself...just kidding. I'm glad, that it's working for you now and thank you for the reply.
I always put my themes in /use/share/themes. It need root privileges and most of the Linux cracks would burn me for this but I never had any issues with this.

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pedrohgodoys
1 year ago

10 Really clean and minimal. I really love it! Great work, mate.

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arris
1 year ago

9 9 excellent

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morphis
1 year ago

Can you please add the default shell color scheme (orange&blue)? I ask that because is very useful have this theme without installing the Ubuntu yaru session (the only way to get the default Ubuntu shell theme in others distros) Thanks!

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Paz-it
1 year ago

9 +great work here!!! thank you so much for doing it :D

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johnz
1 year ago

9 +

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Srijit4Real
1 year ago

9 Thanks! Looking forward to it. Here's my +1 which I forgot

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Srijit4Real
1 year ago

Great work! Using the Deepblue variant on Fedora feels like a well deserved transition. One thing I noticed is that when you hover on the close button on windws, the color shift is very subtle. It would be nice if it were a little more lighter when hovered. I wont shamelessly ask for more, but can the notification and system overlays on the dark variants be dark too?
Kudos, and thank you

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jannomag
1 year ago

Dark notifcations is in the works, when I've the time for it. It's time consuming but I'll release a Yaru-Colors-"Night" theme pack, but I don't know when. The idea is great and you're not the first one who mentioned this.

The colors of the close button are in the same shade as stock Yaru, but I'll take a look over it and maybe update it after the easter weekend ;)

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davidgxxl
1 year ago

9 +1 Waiting this variant for a long time! Thank You...

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20.04.5 6 months ago

- New install.sh - rewritten from scratch, much easier to use (hopefully)
- Added Amber and Teal

Reworked everything 8 months ago

- New icons!
- New base (Yaru 20.04)
- New Color (Orange)
- Purple changed
- Unity support
- Cursors added!

Version 2.0 1 year ago

Yaru got updated with a new light theme, so I recreated Yaru-Colors based on Yaru' 19.10.2 source!
Icons and screenshots are the same - I'll add new screenshots, when I've the time for this.
The install and uninstall scripts are also unchanged!

Maybe I'll add a new theme, called "Classic" or so, with dark title bare as in 1.0 and older Yaru versions...

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tidustraveler 2 days ago 10 the best

10 the best

jdawgnoonan Jan 11 2021 10 the best

This is a great theme, I use it on multiple distros. I do want to report that on Fedora 33 for some reason it is failing to apply to the Geary app. The other default themes work. I just wanted to make you aware. Thanks for the great theme.

allisonaaronb Jan 01 2021 9 excellent

9 excellent

Triceratops Dec 17 2020 10 the best

Very well design, comes with icon theme as well. If you add better screenshots, this would promote better this excellent theme

rafaelhlima Dec 08 2020 10 the best

The Yaru-Colors themes came to make my Ubuntu installation much more beautiful and polished. Also, the recent Snap support now made it possible for snap apps look much nicer.

mofox Nov 29 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

malynel Nov 25 2020 10 the best

applied gdm theme manually as described on your github. works like a charm on ubuntu 20.10, thanks!

gorgiocalm Nov 08 2020 10 the best

10 the best

artix Nov 05 2020 9 excellent

good

Puli Nov 05 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

iyagi Nov 03 2020 10 the best

10 the best

alansmac82 Oct 30 2020 10 the best

10 the best

xakki Oct 08 2020 10 the best

rafaelpribeiro Oct 02 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

whorider Sep 23 2020 10 the best

10 - Anyone else having an issue with Ubuntu Software Center turning transparent? I'm using the Yaru-Purple-Dark variant. (Ubuntu 20.04.1)

oniRy Sep 23 2020 10 the best

10 the best

alcortazzo Sep 01 2020 10 the best

10 the best

geier Aug 14 2020 10 the best

10 the best

rameshh Jul 26 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

t9krzq93ztwc Jul 16 2020 10 the best

10 the best

muqtxdir Jul 15 2020 10 the best

10 the best

tfuentebuena Jun 28 2020 8 great

It is awesome, I can use Yaru theme with Cinnamon/MATE color scheme. VS Code is still not showing black in its common bar (it shows white) unlike the original mixed Yaru theme and default in Ubuntu. Using Mint 20 with Gnome

rodabreu Jun 18 2020 10 the best

10 the best

shadowspring Jun 01 2020 8 great

8 great

vachaj11 May 25 2020 10 the best

10 the best

jchalifour May 21 2020 10 the best

10 the best

nicklestrange May 20 2020 10 the best

10 the best

owlyph May 16 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

brokoli-mate May 05 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

anwarshah Apr 14 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

sang4vn Apr 10 2020 10 the best

10 the best

zvx333 Mar 29 2020 10 the best

10 the best, best Yaru fork you can get today

flor42 Feb 29 2020 10 the best

10 the best

commodoreameris Feb 17 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

linuxoed9 Jan 26 2020 10 the best

10 the best

marciozh Jan 22 2020 10 the best

10 the best

kevinaltaf Jan 18 2020 10 the best

Perfect for my WM!

petermaicher Dec 08 2019 10 the best

10 the best! I needed a theme for Budgie. Yaru was to close to what you get with Ubuntu. Yaru Colors is the answer for me. Currently my favorite is purple. Thanks and keep the good work!

cjcesconetti Nov 02 2019 10 the best

Ótimas opções para quem usa Gnome.

jecsham Oct 13 2019 10 the best

Super cool, the install script works with no problem running as root, the themes looks amazing... thanks!

jonloureiro Oct 10 2019 10 the best

facecolor Oct 06 2019 10 the best

10 the best

erkadia Sep 22 2019 9 excellent

9 excellent

fla15 Sep 21 2019 10 the best

10 the best

fenyx Sep 12 2019 10 the best

Great work, thanks a lot for sharing it with us. Anyway I don't use it yet on my Ubuntu 19.04 because of incompatibility with my very favorite file manager (Double Commander aka. doublecmd-gtk, installed through apt, not by snap or appimage). I don't understand what makes a dark theme work with this application or not but I see that Starlabs and Adwaita-dark are theming it perfectly. I don't know the difference with a theme like yours nor which files should be included or modified, sorry to be of no help. Do you think that this issue with Double Commander could be fixed? I would be glad to use this theme as I really like it. Here's a concrete example: Yaru Blue Dark > https://i.imgur.com/xzdvKDt.png StarLabs Dark > https://i.imgur.com/FGDgJHI.png Yaru Dark (the one included by default with the latest Ubuntu release) > https://i.imgur.com/TYmRY9r.png Packages installed (all from the official Ubuntu repositories): gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf gtk2-engines-murrine murrine-themes doublecmd-common doublecmd-gtk doublecmd-help-en doublecmd-plugins I've posted a message on application's forum to get more informations about the files to customize but nobody answered for now > https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5769