jgpws/jgd-black

JGD-Black theme collection

jgd-black

JGD-Black is a theme collection for GTK applications and Openbox. This collection will style your desktop with glass buttons, pure black top level menus, subtle gray shadows and borders.

With this theme package, you get GTK 2, GTK 3.20 and Openbox themes.

• Theme homepage at Jason G. Designs

How to Install

1. Download the latest file from the downloads directory
2. Open a Terminal application
3. Navigate to your Downloads folder in the terminal (usually titled Downloads). Type cd Downloads
4. Type ls and look for jgd-black-month-day-year.tar.gz, where month, day and year represent when the file was last updated
5. Untar the file by typing tar -zxvf jgd-black-01-01-17.tar.gz, substituting the current version's date numbers
6. type cd again to get to your home folder; type ls -a and see if there is a .themes directory
7. If one does not exist, create one: mkdir .themes
8. cd Downloads
9. cp JGD-Black ../.themes

To install JGD-Black globally:

1. Follow steps 1-5 above
2. cd /usr/share/themes
3. sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/JGD-Black /usr/share/themes
4. Enter sudo password
5. ls to check that the theme folder is present

To install on Arch Linux:

JGD-Black is available in the Arch User Repository. The easiest way to install it is with a pacman frontend which accesses the AUR, such as Yay.

yay -S jgd-black

Once installed, you can use a theme switching application such as LXAppearance or Gnome Tweak Tool to change the theme to JGD-Black

How to install the Clearlooks theme engine

JGD-Black GTK2 requires the Clearlooks theme engine. To install from the command line:

Ubuntu and derivatives:

apt-get install gtk-engines

Arch Linux and derivatives:

sudo pacman -S gtk-engines

Dark Theme

To request that JGD-Black use the dark variant of the theme, open the file found in your-home-folder/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and add or adjust the following:

gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=1

The dark variant will only apply to the GTK3 theme.

Note: The GTK3 version of this theme only works in version 3.20 and above.