GoldBars is a collection of GTK based themes with gold coloring and 3-dimensional icons. The package includes GTK2, GTK3, Metacity, XFWM and Openbox themes.
- Download the latest file from the downloads directory
- Open a Terminal application
- Navigate to your Downloads folder in the terminal (usually titled Downloads). Type
cd Downloads - Type
lsand look forgold-bars-MM-DD-YY.tar.gz, where month, day and year represent when the file was last updated - Untar the file by typing
tar -zxvf gold-bars-01-01-17.tar.gz, substituting the current version's date numbers - type
cdagain to get to your home folder; typels -aand see if there is a .themes directory - If one does not exist, create one:
mkdir .themes cd Downloadscp GoldBars ../.themes
- Follow steps 1-5 above
cd /usr/share/themessudo cp -r ~/Downloads/JGD-Black /usr/share/themes- Enter sudo password
lsto check that the theme folder is present
GoldBars can be found in the Arch User Repository. To install, you can use an AUR helper:
yay -S goldbars
Once installed, you can use a theme switching application such as LXAppearance or Gnome Tweak Tool to change the theme to GoldBars.
You can switch the Metacity theme from the command line:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme GoldBars
The above setting worked in a Compiz environment in Arch. For other desktop environments, see the article Gnome Appearance modify command in Linux / How to change theme using command line in GNOME.
The latest GTK2 version of GoldBars requires the Murrine and Pixmap theme engines. To install:
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-pixbuf
sudo pacman -S gtk-engine-murrine
sudo pacman -S gtk-engines
Note: The GTK3 version of this theme only works in version 3.20 and upwards.