OSX Acr theme is a nice looking and flat modern theme that supports GTK 3, GTK 2, and Gnome Shell. It supports many desktop environments out of the box like Unity, Gnome, Pantheon, Budgie, XFCE, Mate, and so on. You can install these themes on all versions of Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros, Arch Linux and Arch Linux based distros, Elementary OS, Debian 8, Fedora 21-24, OpenSUSE. And all other distros based on these mentioned Linux platforms should not have any problem to install this icon theme.
Arc Theme is a comparatively new set of a theme, which comes with three variations. Theme ‘Arc’ comes with a combination of much light and less dark, ‘Arc Dark’ provides a fully dark theme, and ‘Arc Darker’ comes with a combination of light and dark themes. These themes support any Linux distros, which run the GTK theme engine.
Before proceeding to install, you must uninstall all previous versions of this theme. Run the below code into Terminal to uninstall.
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{Arc,Arc-Darker,Arc-Dark}
rm -rf ~/.local/share/themes/{Arc,Arc-Darker,Arc-Dark}
rm -rf ~/.themes/{Arc,Arc-Darker,Arc-Dark}
Terminal Command Installation
Install Arc Theme on Ubuntu and Linux Mint :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install arc-theme
Install Arc Icon on Ubuntu and Linux Mint :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/icons sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install arc-icons
Install Arc theme on Fedora 23
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:Horst3180/Fedora_23/home:Horst3180.repo yum install arc-theme
Install Arc theme on Fedora 22
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:Horst3180/Fedora_22/home:Horst3180.repo yum install arc-theme
Manual Download and Installation
Step – 1
Step – 2
- Extract to “/usr/share/themes” or “~/.themes” (make this folder without quote, if necessary)
- For Icon, extract here “/use/share/icons”
Step – 3
- Use Distribution specific tools to make the change.
- For Ubuntu, you can use Unity Tweak Tool to make the change.
For More information, follow How To Use Themes and Icons on Various Linux Desktop.
SEE MORE :
- Install Inspire Icon Set on Ubuntu and Other Linux Desktop
- Install Elementary OS Style Icon Theme on Ubuntu
- Install OS X El Capitan Theme on Ubuntu
- Install OSX-Breeze Gnome Theme on Ubuntu / Linux Mint
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How can I make the menu look like in the picture? Could you also share the background image, looks very nice! Thanks!
Warning, installation on cosmic cuttlefish might not be safe – it’s probably fine; main issue is that such a system’s sources.list file needs to accommodate (trust) the repository.
E: The repository ‘https://ppa.launchpad.net/snwh/pulp/ubuntu cosmic Release’ does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.