donfaustinocortizone / nashville96

A collection of vintage-style GTK themes.

Nashville96

A collection of Windows-like GTK themes based on both Chicago95 (for GTK3) and Redmond97 (for GTK2) incoporating some color schemes. If you are interested in knowing how these themes were developed, check my comment in the original reddit post.

Note 1: This was made with both XFCE and MATE on mind, so you may find issues if you are using another DE.

Note 2: The borderless releases only includes the window manager themes.

Note 3: This theme is intented to look better with non-CSD settings. If you want to know how to do that, please check in the Tips and tricks section.

Included themes

• Nashville96 Gruvbox: A Windows-like theme using the Gruvbox pallete.
• Nashville96 Kanagawa: A Windows-like theme using the Kanagawa pallete.
• Nashville96 Solarized: A Windows-like theme using the Solarized pallete.
• Nashville96 Steam: Included as a bonus, a theme i made ago inspired by the Steam old GUI. Unlike the other themes, this was made enterily in Redmond97 so the tricks at the Tips and tricks section will not work. This theme is not supported.

Installation

1. Download and unzip the latest release of your theme of choice.
2. Copy the folder of the theme to ~/.themes/ if you want a local installation, or just copy to /usr/share/themes if you want a global installation.
3. Select the theme with both Appearance and Window Manager.

Note: To install the borderless or/and the HDPI versions, follow the same steps, however it's just the WM theme so just use the Window Manager selector to change it.

Tips and tricks

Desktop icon labels

Unlike Chicago95, the desktop icon labels come disabled by default. To revert that:

1. Go to where your theme is located which is ~/.themes/ if installed locally, if installed globally then go to /usr/share/themes.
2. Open the folder of the theme you want to change, and then navigate to gtk-3.0/apps.
3. Open xfce.css with your editor of choice.
4. Under XfdesktopIconView.view, replace the background: transparent; line with background: @xfd_icon_backdrop;. It should look like this:

   /* Xfdesktop */
   XfdesktopIconView.view {
     background: @xfd_icon_backdrop;
     color: @selected_bg_color;
     border-radius: 0px; }
   

5. Save the changes and restart the theme by just choosing another one and then selecting it again.

Disable CSD

If you want a more coherent look, you can use GTK3 classic or/and libxfce4ui-nocsd. Update: As XFCE 4.18 disables CSD by default, this may be not necessary anymore.

Get bitmap accurate fonts

You can copy the fonts from a default Windows installation and use PixelPerfect for that matter.

Windows icons

If you are looking for Windows-like icons i recommend to use either the default Chicago95 icons or SE98.

Screenshots

Extra information:

• Icons: SE98.
• Cursor: Chicago95 Black.
• Font: Tahoma.
• Terminal Font: Less Perfect DOS VGA, you can also get some good vintage fonts from here.
• Wallpaper: Solid color.
• Compositor: picom.

Thanks to

• @grassmunk for Chicago95.
• @matthewmx86 for Redmond97.
• @morhetz for the Gruvbox color scheme.
• @rebelot for the Kanagawa color scheme.
• @altercation for the Solarized color scheme.
• @tpenguinltg for Windows Classic theme designer.

License

GNU General Public License v3.0

nashville96's Issues

Poor highlight text visibility in thunar

Hello!

• I'm using Nashville Solarized. Selecting a file in thunar makes the text hard to see. Take a look:
  

• Xfwm theme close button of maximized windows isn't clicked when moving the mouse to the top right corner. With Chicago95 I can just click the top right corner of the screen and close the window. I miss this behavior here.

• CSD buttons could also be recolored, now they are gray and look out of place:
  

Nice theme btw! Have you considered contributing to Chicago95? Your work would benefit upstream greatly. I would love to see Chicago95 come with dark theme for gtk3 by default.
I would also like gtk themes to have better HiDPI support (for example non-blurry scrollbar arrows at 2x scale).

Thank you for your work.

HiDPI variants do not show up in Settings Manager

Hi,

Sadly, the HiDPI variants of the themes do not show up in the Xfce Settings Manager for Xfwm4. I've tried both a local and system-wide installation. I'm running Xfce 4.18 on FreeBSD 13.1. I saw that about a month ago a similar issue was fixed, so I'm wondering if this is the same issue re-introduced by Xfce 4.18?

Let me know if you need any more information - this theme is amazing and I really want to use it!