Materia is a Material Design theme for GNOME/GTK+ based desktop environments.
It supports GTK+ 3, GTK+ 2, GNOME Shell, Budgie, Cinnamon, MATE, Unity, Xfce, LightDM, GDM, Chrome theme, etc.
Ripple effect animations for GTK+ 3 are supported:
3 color variants and 2 size variants are available:
Materia | standard | compact |
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standard | ![]() |
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dark | ![]() |
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light | ![]() |
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Various desktop environments are supported:
- GNOME Shell
>=3.18
- Budgie
>=10.4
- Cinnamon
>=3.x
- MATE
>=1.14
- Unity
>=7.4
- Xfce
>=4.13
- GTK+
>=3.20
gnome-themes-extra
(orgnome-themes-standard
)- Murrine engine — The package name depends on the distro.
gtk-engine-murrine
on Arch Linuxgtk-murrine-engine
on Fedoragtk2-engine-murrine
on openSUSEgtk2-engines-murrine
on Debian, Ubuntu, etc.
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— build dependency
Distro | Package Name / Link |
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Arch Linux | materia-gtk-theme |
Debian testing / unstable Ubuntu 18.04+ |
materia-gtk-theme |
Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10 | materia-gtk-theme from @igor-dyatlov's PPA |
Fedora | materia-theme from @LaurentTreguier's Copr |
Solus | materia-gtk-theme |
All 6 variants are available via Flathub:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Materia{,-dark,-light}{,-compact}
Run the following commands in the terminal:
cd /tmp && wget -qO - https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme/archive/master.tar.gz | tar xz
cd materia-theme-master
sudo ./install.sh
Tip: ./install.sh
allows the following options:
Option | Description |
---|---|
-d , --dest DIR |
Specify theme destination directory. (Default: /usr/share/themes ) |
-n , --name NAME |
Specify theme name. (Default: Materia ) |
-c , --color VARIANT... |
Specify theme color variant(s). (Default: All [standard |dark |light ] variants) |
-s , --size VARIANT |
Specify theme size variant. (Default: All [standard |compact ] variants) |
-g , --gdm |
Install and apply GDM theme. |
-h , --help |
Show help. |
Delete the installed directories:
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/Materia{,-dark,-light}{,-compact}
- To properly display the theme, use a font family including Medium weight (e.g. Roboto or M+).
- Set the font size to
9.75
or10.5
(i.e. 13px or 14px at 96dpi).
To use the Chrome theme;
- Open the
chrome
folder on/usr/share/themes/Materia<-variant>
. - Drag and drop the
.crx
files into the Chrome/Chromium Extensions page (chrome://extensions
).
You can change the GDM (lock/login screen) theme by replacing the default GNOME Shell theme.
See gnome-shell/README.md
for details.
Materia can be customized with GUI application, oomox theme designer.
Materia also allows you to change the color scheme relatively easily in other ways. See HACKING.md
for details.
If you find bugs or have suggestions, please report it to the issue tracker. Any contribution would be much appreciated.
Todo list can be found at TODO.md
.
- Materia KDE by @PapirusDevelopmentTeam
- Materia VSCode Theme by @m-thorsen
- Materia Kolorizer by @DarthWound
Materia is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING
file for details.
- Materia is based on Adwaita by GNOME.
- Design and specifications are based on Google's Material Design.
- The included symbolic icons are based on Material Design icons by Google.
- Chrome/Chromium scrollbars extension was forked from Adwaita-chrome-scrollbar by GNOME Integration Team.
- Yauhen Kirylau (@actionless) who is oomox author polished scripts and supported Materia with oomox.
- @n3oxmind who helped improve the installation script.
- @smurphos who made and provided the Cinnamon theme for Materia.
Also thank you to all contributors and upstream developers.