Redmond97

Redmond97 Original

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/matthewmx86/Redmond97

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Description:

A Redmond Win9x clone

New in version 1.95:
Fixed border colors in system tray borders, adjusted clock padding.
Added experimental "Luna" theme.

Please read:

Download Redmond97.tar.gz unless you have disabled CSD decorations.
For those who disabled CSD decorations use the Redmond97-nocsd.tar.gz package instead.

-Install: extract Redmond97.tar.gz into your themes directory.
-(legacy)Howto fix borders in Xfce4 system tray: disable "show frame" and enable "square icons" notification tray options.

To get gradient titlebars in Xfce4 I recommend using marco window manager which is included with MATE desktop.
To select marco themes in Xfce4: gsettings set org.mate.Marco.general theme "Redmond97"

-To use the Firefox theme (IE_classic_firefox.tar.gz):
1. Extract the chrome folder from one of the IE themes in the Redmond_firefox.tar.gz archive to your Firefox profile directoy (eg ~/.mozilla/firefox/user.default/)
[ If you have not enabled custom user style sheets eg userchrome: ]
2. Navigate to "about:config" in Firefox
3. Enter the following text in the search box: toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
4. Set the option toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to True
5. Close all instances of Firefox and the changes will take effect when you restart Firefox.
Note: If you are not running Firefox Quantum 75 or above please use the package "firefox-old.tar.gz"
6. Enable title bars in the Firefox customization page.

Known issues:
-The Firefox themes are currently colored for the default Redmond color scheme.
-If you don't uncheck the "show frame" option for the notification tray the borders will be misaligned.

Last changelog:

1.8 1 year ago

Added support for GTK3 client side decorations for those not using gtk-nocsd or GTK3-classic.
To use the version with support for CSD, download the Redmond97-CSD package.
-CSD windows include shadows to match non gtk-csd applications.
-Updated hamburger menu styles.
-Fixed combobox buttons in editor toolbars used in Evolution and Abiword.

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zigzone
2 days ago

10 10 the best

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sojiro
14 days ago

10 10 the best

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terminalhash
18 days ago

10 Good theme from my favourite Windows version.

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hangman
27 days ago

8 8 great

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dareblue
2 months ago

10 How do you get the start button and task bar for Ubuntu? Thanks for an amazing theme with all the nostalgic alternative color schemes!

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matthewmx86
2 months ago

Thanks for the feedback. To get the classic taskbar / start menu you'll need to install Xfce4 desktop. This tutorial gives a nice step by step howto on installing and using Xfce on Ubuntu: https://itsfoss.com/install-xfce-desktop-xubuntu/. Hope this helps.

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dareblue
2 months ago

I am using Gnome desktop and was able to acheive the same look using the following extensions; Dash to Panel, ArcMenu and Taskbar 2020. Worked perfectly and very customizable. Thanks again!

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connorhordes
2 months ago

10 10 the best

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friday
2 months ago

9 Hi, thank you for this great theme! Good job!

1. How to delete this top border when window maximize?
https://i.imgur.com/4p3fZEL.jpg
That it looks in Windows:
https://i.imgur.com/haWJCXI.jpg

2. How to make this area working for mouse coursor?
https://i.imgur.com/1N4KypR.jpg

I was trying to edit some theme styles to do those above settings, but I couldn't find which one is for.

Why is this important? Because let you to quick operate on open windows - for example when you want to close maximized window, just move coursor to top-right corner and click - don't need to precise point to "X" button. The same is with "Start" button.

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friday
2 months ago

Solved. All above issues don't occur on 18.04 Xubuntu distro with xfce GTK2. Maximized titlebar mus be edit in metacity to change font size and top border. All 20.04 distros have panel bottom border and doesn't working hack with clock and notification area.

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matthewmx86
2 months ago

Thanks for the troubleshooting, I'm hoping to have an update released soon, I have some ideas to fix the various issues.

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friday
2 months ago

BTW: I'm using Xubuntu 20.04 LTS

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winten
2 months ago

7 7 good

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1freepony
2 months ago

7 libgtk 3.24.24, gnome-shell 3.38.3, libmutter 3.38.3

It's an interesting pack! The CSD window borders are nearly perfect, which is impressive. I wish there was a Solaris/CDE theme that got the borders bezel effect right like this one does.

- Window buttons seem too small with large fonts
- In (GNOME with lib)mutter, non-CSD windows don't have any "resize bezels" (sure they're just cosmetic, but even so it's inconsistent).There's a few 1px shadow gaps too.
- Would it be possible to hide the inside bezel around widgets for fullscreen windows?

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matthewmx86
2 months ago

Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad someone tried this with gnome-shell / mutter as I only have Xfce installed on my system it sounds like it might be promising to make this work with gnome. I'm currently working on making the window buttons scalable to they will increase in size with larger fonts. I could look into removing bezels when in fullscreen it may be a limitation but I'll take a look and see if it's possible.

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1freepony
2 months ago

Awesome news, and thanks for keeping this theme updated! I would recommend running a GNOME-bearing OS in a virtual machine if you want to keep your normal desktop clean. gnome-boxes is probably the least fuss virtualization app these days.

I should add that I tried Redmond97.tar.gz because of course you don't really do the nocsd thing in gnome.

FYI, I'm rolling with Debian Testing (the future Debian 11).

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PeterQuint
2 months ago

10 That's close to perfect :) The best Win9 you can get :D

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katar
2 months ago

10 10 the best

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fenneko666
3 months ago

10 10 the best

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sarantche
6 months ago

9 9 excellent

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linuxistsuper
7 months ago

10 10 the best

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10 A

rafaelramos
9 months ago

10 10 the best

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10 A

rafaelramos
9 months ago

I love this theme! I'm nostalgic, and I really enjoy using Xubuntu with the Redmond theme... I was sad when the "xfwm4-themes" package was discontinued, because it had a redmond...

Until I found this "Redmond97" theme on xfce-look! :)

Thank you very much for creating this theme, and congratulations for the good job!

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rafaelramos
9 months ago

Redmond is my favorite theme! :)

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Duke93
10 months ago

10 10 the best

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1.8 1 year ago

1.74 1 year ago

-Updates for MATE desktop (Adds styled application menu for custom menu bar applet).
-Updated whisker menu theme (now supports categories on the left or right side).
-Added metacity-1 themes for MATE desktop and gradient title bar support.
-Adjusted padding for Xfce4 panel.

1.73 1 year ago

Added basic support for MATE desktop.

1.72 1 year ago

-More xfce4 panel updates
-Added styling to xfce4 application menu button

1.71 1 year ago

Added support for gtk3 version of xfce4-clock. Added highlight to xfce4 panel (gtk3 only).
Fixed corrupted Firefox theme archive. All themes now included.

1.7 1 year ago

-Added support for GTK3 Xfce4 panel

1.611 1 year ago

-No changes to theme engine
-Added IE6 style theme for Firefox. Tab support added for IE6 theme.

1.61 1 year ago

-Modified dialog button spacing and added default dialog image
-Fixed tooltip colors
-Fixed progress text background color
-Adjusted menubar padding
-Changed toolbar button style and selected menubar item style
-Removed redmond95 gtk-engine dependency for gtk2 theme
-Added systemtray / clock frame hack for xfce4 panel
-Updated scrolledwindow list
-Theme builder reflects latest changes.

1.521 1 year ago

-No updates to theme engine.
-Changed download source to my github repo for easier package management.
-Added various Win9x themes.
-New bonus content includes:
CDE, Digital CDE, Digital CDE2, High Contrast, High Contrast 2, Lilac Rose, Matrix, Rainy Day, Red White and Blue, Rose, Slate, Spruce, Storm and Teal color schemes.

1.52 1 year ago

-Added treeview progressbars
-Fixed issue of notebook tabs changing size or shifting when tab close button is hovered.
-Added patch to upgrade to ver 1.52. Versions 1.50 and above are supported.

To update to the latest version manually install the latest theme files or run the patch script.

md5:
Redmond97.tar.gz: 6776a4488d15e8bbdd938299267d63e8
theme_builder.tar.gz: 020ad736adccb9f600b757ed4ff22d2a
ie3_classic_firefox: 9ab0a4a5dc00719e8657f2fcbe85b40f
patch_152: eea66d485dd0226337c1731b74261dc6

1.51 1 year ago

Fixed notebook tab button padding so tab height is no longer excessive or too tall.
Updated theme builder to include latest updates.

md5sum:
Redmond97.tar.gz: 366273f74d2e2d8692cc963ae2be527c
theme_builder.tar.gz: a9754d92d34c6052f305d5a623abe6c4
ie3_classic_firefox.tar.gz: 9ab0a4a5dc00719e8657f2fcbe85b40f

1.5 1 year ago

-Fixed combobox entry issues with Mousepad
-Fixed scrollbar buttons in LibreOffice (arrows are still an issue and currently use the default LibreOffice arrows for now.)
-Adjusted frame borders

md5sum:
Redmond97.tar.gz: 6f90af781b24985abc4034c0f4774467
theme_builder.tar.gz: cea7fa75dda111896eccefcf64d61915
ie3_classic_firefox.tar.gz: 9ab0a4a5dc00719e8657f2fcbe85b40f

1.42 1 year ago

-Added back the Firefox left/right scrollbar button fix, one of the last updates removed my changes to the gtk-scrollbar.css file.

1.41 1 year ago

-Updated IE3 Classic Firefox theme:
-Added frame around content window
-Added history dropdown button
-Fixed bookmark toolbar overflow

1.4 1 year ago

-Updated Whisker Menu theme
-Updated combobox button style (now appears as dropdown list, also fixes LibreOffice combo button issue)
-Fixed issues with hovered flat buttons causing margin and padding issues
-Added Redmond97 High Contrast
-Various minor fixes
-Updated theme builder script to add options for Whisker Menu theme.
-Theme builder now inserts correct version identifier on compiled themes.

1.31 1 year ago

-Fixed selected label text color
-Fixed read-only entry box background color
-Updated patch file to latest version.
-You can reinstall the themes or run the theme patching script to get the latest update.
-Updated patch script to allow downloads of the latest patches from the Redmond97 Github repo.

0.6 1 year ago

Code merges and cleanup.
Completed conversion to modular GTK3 CSS layout.
No usability changes.

0.5 1 year ago

Fixed Gtk3 Libre-Office menu bar
Fixed GTK2 menu arrow
Changed menu bar and toolbar borders to classic style
Fixed disabled check and radio text color

0.45 1 year ago

Fixed text color on Whisker Menu selected button.

0.44 1 year ago

-Fixed Whisker Menu selected item. Issue: White text on white background when searching for an item, now changed to a blue background with white text.
-Fixed disabled menu items not being greyed out

0.43 1 year ago

-Fixed tab padding in GTK2 theme
-Fixed tooltip colors in GTK2 theme

0.42 1 year ago

-Removed checkered image from Whisker Menu background
-Changed focused combobox entry background from selected bg color to white.

0.41 1 year ago

-Added support for the GTK3 version of Whisker Menu
-Added missing support for non-toolbar flat buttons

0.4 1 year ago

-Added official GTK2 support. The Redmond97 GTK2 has been completed and is ready for testing.
-Cleaned up code
-Various bug fixes
-Changed titlebar colors to a Win98 type color shceme for xfwm4

0.31 1 year ago

-Finished popover widget
-Added 3D menus
-Fixed app-notifications
-Finished notebook / tab widget
-Fixed toolbar issues in nautilus
-Purged redundant and/or unnecessary code
-Finished inset/outset border widget

0.2 1 year ago

-Fixed treeview drag and drop (no more black text on a black window)
-Changed toolbar buttons to match regular buttons
-Fixed switch button (now looks like radio buttons) so it displays correctly
-Fixed toolbar padding from version 0.1.
-As a work around for the missing GTK2 theme I've included the Chicago95 GTK2 theme temporarily.

0.1 1 year ago

The theme should be mostly usable, however there are still some unfinished widgets and elements.
-Most buttons are now finished
-Made custom switch selector (the default big sliding switch button didn't look right.)
-Changed Nemo toolbar button relief to flat.
-Finished slider widget

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zigzone 2 days ago 10 the best

10 the best

sojiro Apr 09 2021 10 the best

10 the best

terminalhash Apr 05 2021 10 the best

Good theme from my favourite Windows version.

hangman Mar 26 2021 8 great

8 great

dareblue Feb 19 2021 10 the best

How do you get the start button and task bar for Ubuntu? Thanks for an amazing theme with all the nostalgic alternative color schemes!

connorhordes Feb 18 2021 10 the best

10 the best

friday Feb 17 2021 9 excellent

Hi, thank you for this great theme! Good job! 1. How to delete this top border when window maximize? https://i.imgur.com/4p3fZEL.jpg That it looks in Windows: https://i.imgur.com/haWJCXI.jpg 2. How to make this area working for mouse coursor? https://i.imgur.com/1N4KypR.jpg I was trying to edit some theme styles to do those above settings, but I couldn't find which one is for. Why is this important? Because let you to quick operate on open windows - for example when you want to close maximized window, just move coursor to top-right corner and click - don't need to precise point to "X" button. The same is with "Start" button.

winten Feb 10 2021 7 good

7 good

1freepony Jan 25 2021 7 good

libgtk 3.24.24, gnome-shell 3.38.3, libmutter 3.38.3 It's an interesting pack! The CSD window borders are nearly perfect, which is impressive. I wish there was a Solaris/CDE theme that got the borders bezel effect right like this one does. - Window buttons seem too small with large fonts - In (GNOME with lib)mutter, non-CSD windows don't have any "resize bezels" (sure they're just cosmetic, but even so it's inconsistent).There's a few 1px shadow gaps too. - Would it be possible to hide the inside bezel around widgets for fullscreen windows?