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Matcha Gtk Theme – A Beautiful Flat Design Theme for Ubuntu Linux

Matcha Gtk Theme is a modern and flat design theme inspired by the Arc gtk theme. This amazing dark theme supports GTK 3, GTK 2, and Gnome-Shell. This theme is designed to integrate seemingly with GTK 3 and GTK 2 based desktop environments like Unity, Pantheon, Mate, Gnome, Budgie, XFCE, etc.

It provides a friendly interface with eye caching transition and animation. It comes with a total of 6 variations. Those are red, blue, sea green, dark red, dark blue, and dark sea green.

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Matcha GTK theme requires GTK+ 3.20 or later and GTK2 engines. So get sure that you have installed any of those engines before going to install this theme. But if you don’t have one, don’t worry; I am going to show you how to install all those pre-requisites on various Linux distros, including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Arch Linux, etc.

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Install GTK+ 3.20 or later

Update your gtk(gnome) version on Mint if you want to use matcha on Linux Mint 18 or Ubuntu16.04.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Install GTK2 engines

  • Fedora/RedHat distros:
yum install gtk-murrine-engine gtk2-engines
  • Ubuntu/Mint/Debian distros:
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine gtk2-engines-pixbuf
  • ArchLinux:
pacman -S gtk-engine-murrine gtk-engines

Install Matcha Gtk Theme

Now it’s time to install this amazing GTK theme on Ubuntu or any other Linux distros. Check how to install and apply Theme files on Linux, in case you don’t know it.

Download Theme files from gnome-look.org

Note: The features mentioned here are not all-inclusive. The features mentioned are compiled either from their respective official websites or from my personal experience using them.

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Mehedi Hasan
Mehedi Hasan
Mehedi Hasan is a passionate enthusiast for technology. He admires all things tech and loves to help others understand the fundamentals of Linux, servers, networking, and computer security in an understandable way without overwhelming beginners. His articles are carefully crafted with this goal in mind - making complex topics more accessible.

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