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Overview

Clearwaita = Clearlooks + Adwaita

Clearwaita is a GTK2/GTK3 theme. Files for GTK3 are a modified version of Adwaita, the default Gnome 3 theme, to make it visually close to Clearlooks. Files for GTK2 come from the unmodified Clearlooks theme.

Also, files for Metacity, Openbox and Xfwm4 window managers are included.

Here are two screenshots (click to download the original image):

Requirements

The package gnome-themes-standard must be installed. It should be the case on Gnome 3, but not on Xfce.

Installation

• Download the archive of the latest version.

• Extract the archive.

• Rename the extracted folder to Clearwaita.

• Copy the folder Clearwaita in one of the following two locations:

  • ~/.themes/ for the current user;

  • /usr/share/themes/ for all users, including style for programs ran with root privileges (e.g. Synaptic).

• Then, choose Clearwaita theme:

  • on Gnome: with gnome-tweak-tool;

  • on Xfce: by going to Settings > Appearence in the main menu for the GTK theme, and to Settings > Window Manager for the Xfwm4 theme.

Configuration

By default, the font color on a desktop managed by Nautilus is black. To set it to white, open the file gtk-3.0/gtk.css with a text editor, find the following line (at the end of the file):

/*@import url("apps/nautilus.css");*/

and uncomment it, as follows:

@import url("apps/nautilus.css");

To get a custom color, change the color directly in the file gtk-3.0/apps/nautilus.css.

Icons and wallpaper

On screenshots, the icon theme used is Mist, installed with the package gnome-themes.

The wallpaper is a slightly modified version of an image from volvoguy.

Development

Git is used for revision control. Repository can be browsed online or cloned.

Clearwaita has an issue tracker, on which bug reports and feature requests can be submitted.

License

Author: Jean-Philippe Fleury contact@jpfleury.net
Copyright © 2011-2012 Jean-Philippe Fleury

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Third-party code

• Adwaita theme, from the package gnome-themes-standard, under LGPL.

• File gtk-2.0/gtkrc, from the package gtk2-engines, under LGPL.

• File metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml, from the package gnome-themes-selected, under LGPL.

• File openbox-3/themerc, from the package openbox, under GPL.

• Clearlooks XFWM4 theme, under GPL.