Materia
Materia is a Material Design theme for GNOME/GTK based desktop environments.
It supports GTK 2, GTK 3, GNOME Shell, Budgie, Cinnamon, MATE, Unity, Xfce, LightDM, GDM, Chrome theme, etc.
Previews
Features
Supports ripple animations for GTK 3:
3 color variants and 2 size variants are available:
Materia, standard, compact
:-:, :-:, :-:
standard, 
, 
dark, 
, 
light, 
, 
Supported Desktop Environments
- Budgie
>=10.4 - Cinnamon
>=3.x - GNOME Shell
>=3.18 - MATE
>=1.14 - Unity
>=7.4 - Xfce
>=4.13
Unsupported
- Downstream customized GNOME sessions
e.g. "Ubuntu" session, "Pop" session. To properly use Materia on GNOME Shell, please install
gnome-sessionand then switch to "GNOME" or "GNOME on Xorg" session from your display manager. - elementary apps
Because they are based on their own stylesheet that conflicts with GTK standards.
Requirements
- GTK
>=3.20 gnome-themes-extra(orgnome-themes-standard)- Murrine engine — The package name depends on the distro.
gtk-engine-murrineon Arch Linuxgtk-murrine-engineon Fedoragtk2-engine-murrineon openSUSEgtk2-engines-murrineon Debian, Ubuntu, etc.
bc— build dependency
Installation
Distro Packages
Distro, Package Name, Annotation
---, ---, ---
Arch Linux, materia-gtk-theme, Link
Debian 10 or later, materia-gtk-theme, Link
Fedora, materia-gtk-theme, Available from @LaurentTreguier's Copr
Solus, materia-gtk-theme, Link
Ubuntu 18.04 or later, materia-gtk-theme, Link
Warning: Ubuntu disco (19.04) & eoan (19.10) packages are very outdated and incompatible with GNOME 3.32 or later! If you are using GNOME on Ubuntu, you should manually install the theme.
Note: Some distro packages (especially Ubuntu ones) may be outdated and incompatible with your desktop environment. You can check the latest version here.
Flatpak
All 6 variants are available via Flathub:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Materia{,-dark,-light}{,-compact}
Manual Installation
Run the following commands in the terminal:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme
cd materia-theme
sudo ./install.sh
Tip:
./install.shallows the following options:
-d, --dest DIR Specify destination directory (Default: /usr/share/themes)
-n, --name NAME Specify theme name (Default: Materia)
-c, --color VARIANT... Specify color variant(s) [standard, dark, light] (Default: All variants)
-s, --size VARIANT Specify size variant [standard, compact] (Default: All variants)
-g, --gdm Install and apply GDM theme (for advanced users)
See also: src/gnome-shell/README.md
-h, --help Show help
For more information, run:
./install.sh --help
Manual Uninstallation
Delete the installed directories:
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/Materia{,-dark,-light}{,-compact}
Recommendations
Font
- To properly display the theme, use a font family including Medium weight (e.g. Roboto or M+).
- Set the font size to
9.75(= 13px at 96dpi) or10.5(= 14px at 96dpi).
Chrome Theme
To use the Chrome theme;
- Open the
chromefolder on/usr/share/themes/Materia<-variant>. - Drag and drop the
.crxfiles into the Chrome/Chromium Extensions page (chrome://extensions).
GDM Theme
You can change the GDM (lock/login screen) theme by replacing the default GNOME Shell theme.
See gnome-shell/README.md for details.
Customization
Materia can be customized with GUI application, oomox theme designer.
Materia also allows you to change the color scheme relatively easily in other ways. See HACKING.md for details.
Contributing
If you find bugs or have suggestions, please report it to the issue tracker. Any contribution would be much appreciated.
Todo list can be found at TODO.md.
Related Projects
- Materia KDE by @PapirusDevelopmentTeam
- Materia VSCode Theme by @m-thorsen
- Materia Kolorizer by @DarthWound
- oomox theme designer by @themix-project
License
Materia is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for details.
Credits
- Materia is based on Adwaita by GNOME.
- Design and specifications are based on Google's Material Design.
- The included symbolic icons are based on Material Design icons by Google.
- Chrome/Chromium scrollbars extension was forked from Adwaita-chrome-scrollbar by GNOME Integration Team.
- Yauhen Kirylau (@actionless) who is oomox author polished scripts and supported Materia with oomox.
- @n3oxmind who helped improve the installation script.
- @smurphos who made and provided the Cinnamon theme for Materia.
Also thank you to all contributors and upstream developers.