Human theme

This theme works with: GTK 2.24 (with murrine), GTK 3.24, and GTK 4.12.

It is mainly intended for Mate and Xfce desktop environments.

Screenshots

GTK 2.24 (Pango 1.51)\ \

GTK 2.24 RTL (Pango 1.51)\ \

GTK 3.24 (Pango 1.51)\ \

GTK 3.24 RTL (Pango 1.51)\ \

GTK 4.12 (Pango 1.51)\ \

GTK 4.12 RTL (Pango 1.51)\ \

Program used for the screenshots is available here.

Installation

🆕 Before start 🆕

To meet the truth (this is not required):

• remove gtk3-nocsd
• install gtk3-classic
• use Pango 1.42- or 1.51+

For Debian Testing, I provide a repository for gtk3-classic.

If you can't/won't, no worries, but the truth will be far.

Installation for Debian, Ubuntu, Trisquel, Linux Mint, MX Linux

• Run: sudo apt install human-theme-gtk
• Restart your session

Installation for Fedora

• Run: sudo dnf install human-theme-gtk
• Restart your session

Installation for openSUSE

• Run: sudo zypper install human-theme-gtk
• Restart your session

Installation for Mageia

• Run: sudo urpmi human-theme-gtk
• Restart your session

Alternative installation for Debian, Ubuntu, Trisquel, Linux Mint, MX Linux

• Run:

  
  # PPA: https://launchpad.net/~luigifab/+archive/ubuntu/packages
  # with Debian 12+ you can use mantic+ instead of focal (https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/669008/364800)
  # for Trisquel you can use focal for nabia, jammy for aramo
  # for Linux Mint you can use focal for 20.x and 5, jammy for 21.x, noble for 22.x and 6
  # for MX Linux you can use focal for 19.x and 21.x, noble for 23.x

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:luigifab/packages sudo apt update sudo apt install human-theme-gtk

or

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys FFE5BD439356DF7D echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/luigifab/packages/ubuntu focal main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt update sudo apt install human-theme-gtk

or

sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/luigifab.gpg https://www.luigifab.fr/apt.gpg echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/luigifab/packages/ubuntu focal main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt update sudo apt install human-theme-gtk

sha256sum /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/luigifab.gpg

578c89a677048e38007462d543686b53587efba9f93814601169253c45ff9213

apt-key list

/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/luigifab.gpg pub rsa4096 2020-10-31 [SC] 458B 0C46 D024 FD8C B8BC 99CD FFE5 BD43 9356 DF7D

* Restart your session

#### Manual installation for Debian, Ubuntu, Trisquel, Linux Mint, MX Linux

* Download archive and extract subdirectories in `~/.themes/`
* Configure font rendering, GTK and QT, add in `/etc/environment`:

FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35" GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 GTK_BACKDROP=1 GTK_FOCUS_VISIBLE=1 GTK_PROGRESS_TEXT_INSIDE=1 GTKM_INSERT_EMOJI=1 QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2

* Install icons and cursors themes: `sudo apt install gnome-icon-theme dmz-cursor-theme`
* Install package for GTK 2 apps: `sudo apt install gtk2-engines-murrine`
* Install package for QT 5 apps: `sudo apt install qt5-gtk2-platformtheme qt5-gtk-platformtheme`
* Restart your session

#### Manual installation for Fedora

* Download archive and extract subdirectories in `~/.themes/`
* Configure font rendering, GTK and QT, add in `/etc/environment`:

FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35" GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 GTK_BACKDROP=1 GTK_FOCUS_VISIBLE=1 GTK_PROGRESS_TEXT_INSIDE=1 GTKM_INSERT_EMOJI=1 QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2

* Install icons and cursors themes: `sudo dnf install mate-icon-theme dmz-cursor-themes`
* Install package for GTK 2 apps: `sudo dnf install gtk-murrine-engine`
* Restart your session

#### Manual installation for openSUSE

* Download archive and extract subdirectories in `~/.themes/`
* Configure font rendering, GTK and QT, add in `/etc/environment`:

FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35" GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 GTK_BACKDROP=1 GTK_FOCUS_VISIBLE=1 GTK_PROGRESS_TEXT_INSIDE=1 GTKM_INSERT_EMOJI=1 QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2

* Install icons and cursors themes: `sudo zypper install gnome-icon-theme dmz-cursor-themes`
* Install package for GTK 2 apps: `sudo zypper install gtk2-engine-murrine`
* Install package for QT 5 apps: `sudo zypper install libqt5-qtstyleplugins-platformtheme-gtk2 libqt5-qtbase-platformtheme-gtk3`
* Install package for QT 6 apps: `sudo zypper install qt6-platformtheme-gtk3`
* Restart your session

#### Manual installation for Mageia

* Download archive and extract subdirectories in `~/.themes/`
* Configure font rendering, GTK and QT, add in `/etc/environment`:

FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35" GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 GTK_BACKDROP=1 GTK_FOCUS_VISIBLE=1 GTK_PROGRESS_TEXT_INSIDE=1 GTKM_INSERT_EMOJI=1 QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2

* Install icons themes: `sudo urpmi mate-icon-theme`
* Restart your session

## Configuration

For **Mate** desktop:
* Go to: *System / Preferences / Appearance*, or run: `mate-appearance-properties`
* Then select the *Human* theme
* Go to: *System / Preferences / Windows*, or run: `mate-window-properties`
* Then disable software compositing from last tab

For **Xfce** desktop:
* Go to: *Applications / Settings / Appearance*, or run: `xfce4-appearance-settings`
* Then select the *Human* theme
* Go to: *Applications / Settings / Window Manager*, or run: `xfwm4-settings`
* Then select the *Human* theme

Fonts used:
* *DejaVu Sans Book* or *Sans Regular*, 10
* *DejaVu Sans Bold* or *Sans Bold*, 10
* *DejaVu Sans Mono Book* or *Monospace Regular*, 10

Icons used:
* *gnome* or *mate*

Cursors used:
* *DMZ white*

## Customize

Use the file *~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css*.

## Firefox/Thunderbird/Chromium

For Firefox and Thunderbird and Chromium, if font rendering is bad, try this:

```bash
cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/
sudo rm 10-hinting-slight.conf # /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf
sudo ln -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-full.conf

For classic menu bar and menu items of Firefox 46+ and Thunderbird 46+, see bug 1622545.

Dev

Run AWF with screenshot on theme reload:

awf-gtk2 -n -s ~/2.png
awf-gtk3 -n -s ~/3.png
awf-gtk4 -n -s ~/4.png

Run Entr to send SIGHUP signal when files change to reload theme:

ls ~/.themes/human-theme*/gtk-2*/gtkrc | entr killall -s SIGHUP awf-gtk2
ls ~/.themes/human-theme*/gtk-3*/*.css | entr killall -s SIGHUP awf-gtk3
ls ~/.themes/human-theme*/gtk-4*/*.css | entr killall -s SIGHUP awf-gtk4

Run ImageMagick to create the diff image:

killall -q eom
rm -f ~/diff3.png
compare -fuzz 1% -compose src -highlight-color blue -lowlight-color none ~/2.png ~/3.png ~/diff3.png
composite ~/diff3.png ~/2.png ~/diff3.png
eom ~/diff3.png &

Run svg.sh to update SVG images. See also technical informations.

Copyright

• Current version: 2.2.0 (02/02/2024)
• Compatibility: GTK 2.24 / 3.24 / 4.12
• Links: luigifab.fr - github.com - mate-look.org - xfce-look.org\ Arch Linux human-theme-gtk.zst\ Debian human-theme-gtk.deb (ITP, RFS)\ Fedora human-theme-gtk.rpm\ openSUSE human-theme-gtk.rpm\ Mageia human-theme-gtk.rpm\ Ubuntu PPA

This theme is provided under the terms of the GNU GPLv3+ license.\ If you like, take some of your time to improve some translations, go to https://bit.ly/2HyCCEc.

Packages in official distros repositories

Credits

GTK 2 theme (CC-BY-SA-3.0+)

• Created by Kenneth Wimer and Conn O'Griofa (see human-theme Ubuntu package)

GTK 3 theme (GNU GPLv3+)

• Forked from Clearlooks-Phénix by Mike Kazantsev (mk-fg)
• Forked from Clearlooks-Phénix by Jean-Philippe Fleury (jpfleury) and Andrew Shadura

Metacity theme (clearlooks, GNU LGPLv2.1+)

• Created by Daniel Borgmann and Andrea Cimitan