This project generates colour variants for the Ambiant-MATE family, including:
- Ambiant-MATE-Dark
- Radiant-MATE
Like Ambiant-MATE, this theme is not actively maintained and relies on community contributions.
The theme will be continued to be packaged for new Ubuntu releases.
Packages are made with the following pre-defined colours:
| Aqua | Blue | Brown | Orange | Pink | Purple | Red | Teal | Yellow |
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#2DACD4 |
#5489CF |
#965024 |
#E95420 |
#E231A3 |
#7E5BC5 |
#CE3A3A |
#1CB39F |
#DFCA25 |
Coloured themes can be obtained in a few ways:
- Ubuntu users can add the
lah7/ambiant-matePPA. - Download a copy from the Releases page.
- Build one yourself
Ubuntu users can conveniently add the PPA like so:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lah7/ambiant-mate
Packages are split by colour, so installing ambiant-mate-colours-blue will
give you the blue variants of the GTK and icon themes.
sudo apt install ambiant-mate-colours-blue
Want them all? That's roughly 35 MB download, 550 MB unpacked!
sudo apt install ambiant-mate-colours-all
After installing, themes/icons will be available from Appearance (Look & Feel).
To keep the size of the colour themes down, these colours depend on the original
theme packages: ambiant-mate-gtk-themes and ambiant-mate-icon-themes
(included in the PPA)
Previously, this project was known as ubuntu-mate-colours,
which included recoloured wallpapers and a Plank theme.
Users running a release of Ubuntu MATE between 18.04 and 21.10 can conveniently access this feature via the Welcome application:
This adds the older lah7/ubuntu-mate-colours PPA, which is now discontinued. This feature is no longer accessible in 22.04 as Yaru-MATE now includes colour variants out of the box, and superceded this theme.
In order for the theme to work in snapped applications, you will need to install the snap in addition:
sudo snap install ubuntu-mate-colours
Please note: The snap is no longer updated.
Then, "plug" this snap to all the other snaps:
for PLUG in $(snap connections | grep gtk-common-themes:gtk-3-themes | awk '{print $2}'); do sudo snap connect ${PLUG} ubuntu-mate-colours:gtk-3-themes; done
for PLUG in $(snap connections | grep gtk-common-themes:gtk-2-themes | awk '{print $2}'); do sudo snap connect ${PLUG} ubuntu-mate-colours:gtk-2-themes; done
for PLUG in $(snap connections | grep gtk-common-themes:icon-themes | awk '{print $2}'); do sudo snap connect ${PLUG} ubuntu-mate-colours:icon-themes; done
To snap an individual application, such as Firefox:
sudo snap connect firefox:gtk-3-themes ubuntu-mate-colours:gtk-3-themes
This step may need to be repeated when installing new snaps to the system.
Please note that the snap only provides compatibility for snapped applications. It cannot be selected as the theme in MATE's Appearance settings.
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To begin, make sure you have a clone of this repository.
git clone https://github.com/lah7/Ambiant-MATE-Colours -
Install the dependencies:
sudo apt install librsvg2-bin imagemagick -
(Optional) Download a copy of Ambiant-MATE.
Skip this step if you have the theme already installed on your system.
git clone https://github.com/lah7/Ambiant-MATE -
Use the script to generate your theme.
The tool is entirely command line and parameter based. For usage:
./generate-ambiant-mate-colour.py --helpTo use the system's copy of Ambiant-MATE, use
--src-dir /, otherwise, use--src-dir Ambiant-MATE/that was created withgit cloneearlier.By default, the new theme will be created in
~/.themesand~/.icons. If you use Compiz, this needs to be copied (as root) to/usr/share/in order for window borders to work.
Ambiant-MATE/Radiant-MATE themes can optionally apply 'tweaks' to modify the themes even further:
| Tweak Name | Theme | Description |
|---|---|---|
mono-osd-icons |
Ambiant/Radiant-MATE | Use monochrome icons for OSD volume pop up (#14) |
black-selected-text |
Ambiant/Radiant-MATE | The selected text colour is black instead of white (#21) |
gtk3-classic |
Ambiant/Radiant-MATE | Append treeview alternating styling for use with the gtk3-classic project. |
These are passed as a comma separated parameter to --tweaks.
A local package can be produced by running:
debuild -b
Note that this runs through the entire scripts/build.sh script, which takes a
long time to process. A RAM disk is strongly recommended.
Packaging is not strictly required, a complete colour collection can be created like this:
scripts/build.sh
tar -cv usr/ | xz -z -9 > ubuntu-mate-colours-VERSION.tar.xz
Take your favourite Ubuntu MATE wallpaper and recolour it:
convert input.jpg -colorspace gray temp.jpg
convert temp.jpg -background white -fill 'YOUR_HEX_HERE' -tint 100 output.jpg
Users upgrading to 22.04 can re-download coloured wallpapers from this release (18.8 MB).
More tips can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md
This program is licensed under the GPLv3.
Ambiant-MATE is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
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