Kanagawa is a GTK theme based on the colour palette of the Kanagawa for Neovim by @rebelot, the Graphite GTK theme by @VinceLiuice and the Suru Plus Icons by @gusbemacbe.
The idea was born from the need for GTK themes that match the most prominent colour palettes of Neovim code editor and Tiling Window Manager, such as Xmonad, Awesome, DWM, etc, which use these colour schemes to give a uniform and unique look to working environments. See on Reddit: r/unixporn.
The colour palettes in this series of themes are the ones I have used the most in my setup for Neovim, Xmonad and Gnome DE, so creating themes started as something personal that I then decided to share thanks to several people asking me to share them because they seemed good, I hope you find them useful and make your desktops look good too.
Installing Themes
Before applying the themes, you need to check if the Murrine Engine package is already installed on your distro, as it is necessary for the correct rendering of the themes. Depending on your Linux distro, the package may have a different name, here are the package names in some distro: On Fedora: gtk-murrine-engine, OpenSUSE: gtk2-engine-murrine, Arch: gtk-engine-murrine, Debian and derivatives: gtk2-engines-murrine
Themes work in Gnome 40, 41. 42 and 43 versions, but since Gnome 42 introduced Libadwaita the themes files for GTK4 applications must be placed in a new directory in a new path: '~/.config/gtk-4.0' with the name 'gtk.css'; this will apply the themes automatically without use Gnome Tweaks but, for GTK3 applications, we must always use Tweaks as we have done so far.
To install the themes you will need to download the theme package of your choice and place it in the following path: ~/.themes; for themes in Gnome 43 there is no longer a separate stylesheet, you can create a symlink for the files inside the gtk-4.0 folder which is inside the theme package, or just copy the files inside the gtk-4.0 folder into the ~/.conifg/gtk-4.0 path.
As I mentioned before, the GTK4 themes don't need to be applied with Tweaks, they are applied automatically but, if you have applications open you will have to close and open them for the theme to be applied, but for GTK3 applications you do need to apply them with Tweaks, as usual.
Clarifying some doubts.
Some people have told me that they find the names a bit complicated and confusing because of the abbreviations I have put next to the name of each theme. I have abbreviated the themes because I don't like to put such long names like: Material-Deep-Ocean-Borderless-Legacy-Buttons-Gnome, Admittedly, it is a very explicit name, but it is a ridiculously long name. So I decided to abbreviate the different versions for each theme, like Tokyonight-Dark-BL-LB, so to clarify the abbreviations here is a small table.
| ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ | ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ |
| Abbreviation example | Explanation of abbreviations |
| ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ | ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ |
| Theme-Name-B | Theme with Border decoration |
| ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ | ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ |
| Theme-Name-B-LB | Theme with Border decoration and Legacy Buttons in Windows |
| ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ | ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ |
| Theme-Name-B-GS | Theme with Border decoration for Gnome Shell |
| ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ | ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ |
| Theme-Name-BL | Theme Borderless decoration |
| ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ | ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ |
| Theme-Name-BL-LB | Theme Borderless decoration and Legacy Buttons in Windows |
| ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ | ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ |
| Theme-Name-BL-GS | Theme Borderless decoration for Gnome Shell |
| ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ | ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ |
You all know that you can leave comments to report bugs or give your opinion about the theme, so please leave comments to report bugs and get them fixed as soon as possible.
You can buy me a coffee or a beer and donate to support the development of these themes.
< ENJOY IT };-] >
Ratings & Comments
23 Comments
10 Since Gnome 45 (Manjaro), the theme no longer adapts correctly (file manager). Will we have any chance of an update?
1 1 Ugh
Excellent theme, very smooth
10 Great theme!
9 very pretty
10 10 At first I say to myself "ok it's cool but. . ." I try using it on long period and well, now, for me, this theme is just wonderful, easy to the eyes, easy to "read". A must have! Thank you for the job
9 9 excellent
8 8 great
Great theme, a pleasure to use Noticed just one bug so far: when switching to grid-mode if 'Files', selected items become black Otherwise a great theme, keep up the good work!
I just wish it had a better color.
10 Fantastic themes you have here, but just an observation please change the color of the font for the system folders to anything other than black.
This includes other themes as well.
gorgeous theme. any chance of getting themed icons for this in the near future?
This is the icon package shown in the screenshot. Link: https://www.pling.com/p/1810565/ Thanks for your support };-]
wow, gorgeous. thanks a bunch!
Why not support libadwaita via GTK_THEME, like Marwaita does it?
I don't really know how it works, but I've also read on some Arch Linux page that 'pam_env' will soon be deprecated, but I don't really know because I don't know how it works with GTK themes. I'll look for more information on this to see if I can implement it. Thanks for the support, and thanks for the tip };-]
I'm just glad people are supporting libadwaita even it it's through tricks! Other environment files and startup scripts that work for me: ~/.config/environment.d/50theme.conf (gnome, "name=value" line), ~/.xsessionrc (xfce, "export name=value" line). Sadly, the approach does mess up dark mode apps if you normally use a light theme :(
10 great interface and design thanks!
9 Great theme! There seems to be minor issue with the theme on Cinnamon though. On the Themes window, the selection boxes are not distinguishable since their background color is the same as the window background. They are visible only when the cursor hovers over them. https://imgur.com/a/i7HDP3w
Hi, @pawanneupane, thanks for reporting and your support };-]
10 Simple and beautiful. Nice work :D
Thank you, @exblue, for your support, It's great that you like it, Thanks };-]