Victory Gtk Theme

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://bitbucket.org/newhoa/victory-gtk-theme

Description:

Victory is a bright, flat, and minimalist theme. This theme was made using, and primarily for use on, Xubuntu and Lubuntu 16.04 thru 18.04, but should work fine with any XFCE/LXDE-based distro. Gtk3 elements should work on Gtk 3.18 (Ubuntu 16.04) and above. Even though a Gtk3 theme is provided, I have not tested it on Gnome3, so please report issues. As of the 18.07 release, Gtk3 theming has become the primary focus, and as of this release, all Gtk3 elements should be themed correctly. I've also included variant borders and styles for Openbox and XFWM, as well as a notification theme for XFCE. Again, please let me know if anyone has any problems, thoughts, constructive criticisms, etc.

Thanks again everyone... I really appreciate all the feedback, votes, and comments!

I have also recently set up Patreon and Liberapay pages for those interested in supporting my work, and any contributions are greatly appreciated:

https://www.patreon.com/newhoa
https://liberapay.com/newhoa/

Thanks!

- Darin

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++ Installing ++

To install, downloaded the tar.gz, open it and extract the folder of your preferred theme into your ~/.themes folder (if your home directoy does not have a .themes folder, create one). Then open your desktops Appearance Manager to select the theme.

+ Appearance Managers

- XFCE: xfce4-appearance-settings (for Theme/Controls)
- XFCE: xfwm4-settings (for Window Border)

- LXDE: lxappearance (for Theme/Controls)
- LXDE/Openbox: obconf (for Window Border)

+ Theme Directory is located at /home/USERNAME/.themes

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++ Configure ++

You can modify the colors and change some styles in the /home/USERNAME/.themes/victory-gtk-theme/gtk-3.20/gtk.css file. Open that file and you can change the colors. At the bottom you can uncomment lines for various custom styles that will affect certain applications or parts of the theme (more styles to be added later). The picture for this theme is using Thunar, for example, with the thunar custom view line uncommented. This removes the back/forward/home buttons from thunar and makes the location bar take up all the space.

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++ Credits ++

In the first preview image I am using the Victory Icon Theme and the wallpaper Flow by tri5tian here on this site. Icons used in the second image (temporarily removed until I have time to re-add the color variants after the 18.07 release) include Boston icons, Arc icons, Papirus icons, Breeze icons.

Victory Icon Theme: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1012338/
Flow by tri5tian: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1043280/
Boston Icon Theme: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1012402/
Arc Icon Theme: https://github.com/horst3180/arc-icon-theme
Papirus Icon Theme: https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme
Breeze Icon Theme: https://github.com/KDE/breeze-icons

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ganeshedge
6 months ago

10 10 the best

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ewertonurias
1 year ago

10 10 the best

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S2 9

novomente
2 years ago

9 + Really nice and smooth theme

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sinner59
2 years ago

You should change the category from GTK2 to GTK3, by putting this theme into 2, users that fiter on gtk3 (most) don't see it.

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maurics
2 years ago

9 +

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ergerfge
3 years ago

How do I get mine to look like the first picture clean without all the borders? Can I do it on xfce? thanks

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newhoa
3 years ago

In that picture I'm just using the default Victory Gtk Theme. I'm using Thunar. You can hide the menubar with Cltr+M or under View uncheck the Menubar. For the sidebar, you can right click on a title (Places, Devices, Network, etc) and select which icons to hide or show. Hope that helps!

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hehee
3 years ago

I do not have scrollbars in firefox and thunderbird when using 16.10

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newhoa
3 years ago

That was fixed in the 17.04 version, try victory-gtk-theme-master-2017-09.zip. Let me know if you still have problems. Thanks!

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jeffiles
3 years ago

Lovely theme!

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Dario
3 years ago

The theme looks great in mint 18.2 cinnamon, but there is a problem and is that the screen goes blank, I mean the wallpaper disappears, is there any way to fix it ?, thanks

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newhoa
3 years ago

I'm really not sure why this would happen. Can you change the wallpaper after the theme is applied? And does it happen with any other themes that you know of? I don't use Cinnamon so maybe you could ask on the Mint forums because I really don't know how to troubleshoot that. If you find any more info let me know, meanwhile I'll take a look at it next time I work on it. Thanks!

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Dario
3 years ago

Hi, thanks for answering.
After applying the theme I can not change the wallpaper, simply the screen goes blank, and this problem has not come up with any other theme

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fishears
3 years ago

There's a small issue with buttons in gtk3 for me:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1wOhkjJBMXfZ0JmbWJyd19tRDA/view?usp=drivesdk

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fishears
3 years ago

9 Very nice. I wish the variants had matching gtk3 versions though

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newhoa
3 years ago

Hey, I updated the theme a bit. The variants now having matching Gtk3 versions in apps that use the Menubar (File, View, etc). And I'll work on that Button issue you posted for 17.10. Thanks for the comments!

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hehee
3 years ago

I installed your theme and so far it's my favorite except for this bug i encountered in menus, also happens in the file browser menu. See pic https://imgur.com/a/ngADy I already tried adding the lines to gtk-widgets.css like you suggestedd below

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hehee
3 years ago

Nevermind, I fixed it. I was missing the necessary engine.

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newhoa
3 years ago

Was it the Murrine engine? I should add that to the description I guess. Thanks!

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hictio
4 years ago

It looks really, really cool.
Thank you!

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newhoa
3 years ago

Thanks I appreciate it!

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anonymousone
8 years ago

For the GTK2 theme, the menus seem to lack nice contrast: light grey on dark grey. Also Chromium seems to grab some blueish color for items the bookmarks bar. I think black would look better.

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fedorawithlxderocks
8 years ago

some text and box selection are white and some windows looks like without theme

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newhoa
8 years ago

Hi, I made this theme using Gtk3.2, and they've made changes in Gtk3.4 which causes some problems with this theme.

I've updated the theme to fix the white text problem. Please delete the theme you downloaded, and try downloading this new update.

Please let me know if it fixes the white text problem!

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lxdefanbr
8 years ago

i installed this theme on Lubuntu 12.04

looks cool

http://i45.tinypic.com/dm8xlk.jpg

but text is white, i no can read, please help me, to change text to black

http://i45.tinypic.com/15ciqm1.jpg

sorry my bad english

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