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Vertex is a theme for GTK 3, GTK 2, Gnome-Shell and Cinnamon
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Vertex is a theme for GTK 3, GTK 2, Gnome-Shell and Cinnamon

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# Vertex Theme



Vertex is a theme for GTK 3, GTK 2, Gnome-Shell and Cinnamon. It supports GTK 3 and GTK 2 based desktop environments like Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate, XFCE, Budgie, Pantheon, etc. Themes for the Browsers Chrome/Chromium and Firefox are included, too.



The theme comes with three variants to choose from. The default variant with dark header-bars, a light variant, and a dark variant.



### Requirements



* At least Gnome/GTK 3.10. This theme works with all versions up to 3.22.

* The `gnome-themes-standard` package

* The murrine engine. This has different names depending on your distro.

  * `gtk-engine-murrine` (Arch Linux)

  * `gtk2-engines-murrine` (Debian, Ubuntu, elementary OS)

  * `gtk-murrine-engine` (Fedora)

  * `gtk2-engine-murrine` (openSUSE)

  * `gtk-engines-murrine` (Gentoo)



Main distributions that meet these requirements are



* Arch Linux and Arch Linux based distros

* Ubuntu 14.04 or newer

* elementary OS Freya

* Linux Mint 17.1

* Debian 8, Testing or Unstable

* Gentoo

* Fedora 20 or newer

* OpenSuse 13.1, 13.2, Leap 42.1 and Tumbleweed

* Solus



Derivatives of these distributions should work, aswell.



If your distribution is not listed, please check the requirements yourself.



### Installation



**Important:** Remove all older versions of the theme from your system before you proceed any further.



    sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{Vertex,Vertex-Dark,Vertex-Light,Vertex-Gnome-Shell,Vertex-Gnome-Shell-3.16,Vertex-Cinnamon}

    rm -rf ~/.local/share/themes/{Vertex,Vertex-Dark,Vertex-Light,Vertex-Gnome-Shell,Vertex-Gnome-Shell-3.16,Vertex-Cinnamon}

    rm -rf ~/.themes/{Vertex,Vertex-Dark,Vertex-Light,Vertex-Gnome-Shell,Vertex-Gnome-Shell-3.16,Vertex-Cinnamon}



**Packages**



Prebuilt packages for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE are available at 



http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3AHorst3180&package=vertex-theme



Arch Linux users can install the theme from the AUR



https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vertex-themes



https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vertex-themes-git/



**Manual Installation**



To build the theme you need 

* `autoconf`

* `automake`

* `pkg-config` or `pkgconfig` if you use Fedora

* `libgtk-3-dev` for Debian based distros or `gtk3-devel` for RPM based distros

* `git` if you want to clone the source directory



If your distributions doesn't ship separate development packages you just need GTK 3 instead of the `-dev` packages.



Install the theme with the following commands



**1. Get the source**



If you want to install the latest version from git, clone the repository with



    git clone https://github.com/horst3180/vertex-theme --depth 1 && cd vertex-theme



If you want to install the latest stable release, run



    git clone https://github.com/horst3180/vertex-theme --depth 1 && cd vertex-theme

    git fetch --tags

    git checkout $(git describe --tags `git rev-list --tags --max-count=1`)



or download it from https://github.com/horst3180/Vertex-theme/releases and cd into the extracted archive



**2. Build and install the theme**



    ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr

    sudo make install



Other options to pass to autogen.sh are



    --disable-cinnamon         disable Cinnamon support

    --disable-dark             disable Vertex Dark support

    --disable-gnome-shell      disable GNOME Shell support

    --disable-gtk2             disable GTK2 support

    --disable-gtk3             disable GTK3 support

    --disable-light            disable Vertex Light support

    --disable-metacity         disable Metacity support

    --disable-unity            disable Unity support

    --disable-xfwm             disable XFWM support



    --with-gnome=     build the theme for a specific Gnome version (3.10, 3.12, 3.14, 3.16, 3.18, 3.20)

                               Note: Normally the correct version is detected automatically and this

                               option should not be needed.



After the installation is complete you can activate the theme with `gnome-tweak-tool` or a similar program by selecting `Vertex`, `Vertex-Light` or `Vertex-Dark`.



**Uninstall the theme**



Run



    sudo make uninstall



from the same directory as this README resides in, or



    sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{Vertex,Vertex-Dark,Vertex-Light}



### Extras



The `extra` directory in the same directory as this README resides in contains Chrome/Chromium and Firefox themes, a fix for the Ubuntu-Software-Center when using the dark theme, a Plank theme and an alternative metacity theme, which hides the window titles of maximized windows (doesn't work on Gnome 3.16 and up).



To install the Chrome/Chromium theme go to the `extra/Chrome` folder and drag and drop the Vertex.crx or Vertex-light.crx file into the Chrome/Chromium window. The source of the Chrome themes is located in the source "Chrome/source" folder.



To install the Firefox theme copy the `extra/Firefox/Vertex/chrome` folder to `~/.mozilla/firefox/yourprofile.default/` and restart Firefox.

Make sure that the `tools>options>content>colors use system colors` or `preferences>content>colors use system colors` checkbox is unchecked.

Themes for the variants Vertex-Light and Vertex-Dark are in the Firefox folder, too. Installation is the same.



To install the alternative metacity theme, copy the `Vertex_alt_metacity` folder to `/usr/share/themes` and select it as window theme.



To install the Plank theme, copy the `extra/Vertex-Plank` folder to `~/.local/share/plank/themes` or to `/usr/share/plank/themes` for system-wide use.

Now open the Plank preferences window by executing `plank --preferences` from a terminal and select `Vertex-Plank` as the theme.



### Troubleshooting



If you get artifacts like black or invisible backgrounds under Unity, disable overlay scrollbars with



    gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

====



Ubuntu-Software-Center doesn't play nice with dark themes. If you are using Vertex-Dark under Ubuntu the software center will have unreadable text.

To fix this, install the Ubuntu-Software-Center fix. Instructions and relevant files are included in the `extra/Ubuntu-Software-Center` folder.



### Bugs

If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/horst3180/Vertex-theme/issues



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