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Top 30 Best Ubuntu Themes That Will Blow Your Mind

We covered different icon themes for Ubuntu; most of them being icon themes inspired by material design and flat design. It has been a while since our last theme article and I figure today will be a day to present you with a somewhat mega list.

My compilation includes a few themes already featured on FossMint together with others you probably haven’t heard about yet. If you are keen on personalization and UI beauty then I’m sure that my compilation will blow your mind.

Theme Installation

The following installation instructions are similar for every other theme available in a compressed format with the only difference being the specific theme you select.

• Download your preferred variant theme.
• Extract the zip file to ~/.themes/ directory in your home folder.
• Use the GNOME Tweaks tool to select the theme.

1. ArcMPD Theme

ArcMPD is, as the name implies, an Arc-based translucent GTK theme for Minimalists.

2. Flat Remix Gnome Theme

Flat Remix Gnome theme is currently my favorite shell theme on this list. It is a modern, beautiful, and simple theme inspired by material design with modern “flat” colors with high contrasts and sharp borders.

It comes with its icon pack! and also available in Light and Dark versions.

Install the Flat Remix Gnome theme using the following PPA in Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:daniruiz/flat-remix $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install flat-remix-gnome

On Fedora-based distributions.

$ sudo dnf copr enable daniruiz/flat-remix $ sudo dnf install flat-remix-gnome

3. Ant Theme

Ant theme is a modern flat GTK theme with an eye candy UI and 3 color variants, Ant, Ant Dracula, and Ant Bloody.

4. Canta Theme

Canta theme is an eye candy flat Material design theme with glossy eye-candy tabs and windows with rounded border-radius.

5. Paper Theme

The Paper theme, being of the Paper project, is one of the best themes available today and you can set it up together with its icon set and custom cursors.

Install the Paper theme using the following PPA in Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

$ sudo add-apt-repository -u ppa:snwh/ppa $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt install paper-icon-theme # if you want to install the icons and colors $ sudo apt-get install paper-icon-theme $ sudo apt-get install paper-cursor-theme

6. Arc Theme

Arc theme, is arguably the most popular and modern flat GTK Theme with transparent elements and 3 variants, Arc, Arc-Darker, and Arc-Dark.

Install the Arc theme, clone the repository, and install manually as shown.

$ git clone https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme --depth 1 && cd arc-theme $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr $ sudo make install

After the installation is complete the theme can be activated with the gnome-tweak tool.

7. Matcha Theme

Matcha theme is a beautiful flat Arc-based theme with transparent elements. It is the perfect dark mode GTK theme with even multiple ARC variants for window control buttons.

8. Pop Theme

Pop is an eye candy Adapta-inspired theme reminiscent of Unity’s color scheme with its brown and orange color settings.

Install Pop theme using the following PPA in Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:system76/pop $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install pop-theme

9. Vimix Theme

Vimix is a flat material design theme based on nana-4. Its beautifully crafted icons will give your desktop a glossy look which comes in 3 variants, Grey, Doder, and Ruby.

10. Qogir Theme

Qogir is a flat design Arc-based theme with a blue and white overall color scheme and a dark shell theme variant. As far as I’m concerned, Qogir is the cooler sibling of Blue Face and is bound to improve your overall desktop experience.

11. Materia-Theme

Materia (formerly Flat-Plat) is a beautiful Material Design theme that has built-in compatibility with Oomox theme designer.

What makes it even more awesome is its support for Ripple effect animations and it comes with 3 color variants and 2 size variants.

Install the Materia Remix Gnome theme using the following PPA in Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

$ sudo apt install materia-gtk-theme

On Fedora-based distributions.

$ sudo dnf copr enable tcg/themes $ sudo dnf install materia-theme

You can also install three variants (Materia, Materia-dark, Materia-light) via Flathub using the following commands.

$ flatpak remote-add flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo $ flatpak install flathub org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Materia $ flatpak install flathub org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Materia-dark $ flatpak install flathub org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Materia-light

12. Sierra Gtk Theme

Sierra is a perfect shell theme GTK 3, GTK 2, and Gnome-Shell which supports GTK 3 and GTK 2-based desktop environments like Gnome, Pantheon, XFCE, Mate, etc.

To install the Sierra theme, use the following PPA on Ubuntu and its derivatives.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dyatlov-igor/sierra-theme $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install sierra-gtk-theme # point releases $ sudo apt install sierra-gtk-theme-git # git master branch

13. Minimal Conception Theme

Minimal Conception’s aim is to provide you with a simple interface that will keep clutter away from your workspace and maintain minimalist beauty at the same time.

14. Windows 10 Light Theme

How would you like to experience Windows? with this Windows 10 Light Theme’s latest UI on your GNOME or Unity desktop? Download this one and see if it doesn’t win your heart.

15. Copernico Theme

As you might have guessed, Copernico Theme is inspired by flat design and you can edit and compile its SCSS files for further customization.

16. T4G-Shell-theme III

T4G-Shell-theme III is a transparent dark shell theme variant of the T4G Shell theme, however, you can use it as a stand-alone shell theme. This is a good choice if you’re a fan of Windows’ translucent UI feature.

17. Human Shell Theme Collection

The Human Shell Theme Collection features a grey semi-transparent color scheme and layout that remains true and yet modern to the typical Gnome look.

It is available in 3 variants, default, mobile, black, and next; and works best with macOS-like icons and macOS-like docks.

That concludes my list! Did I mention your favorite picks? Did I blow your mind? Perhaps I left out awesome shell themes that you’ve enjoyed using.

Let me know your suggestions in the discussion box below.

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11 Best Linux Mint Themes

Theming is one of the best ways to refresh your experience of your Linux system. Themes add a whole new experience to your experience, be it an icon theme or a full-fledged theme. In fact, there are already a number of available themes for almost all the distros that offer great versatility and style to the system. Today, we’ll have a look at some of the finest Linux Mint themes.

Before we get into the list of themes, there’s a thing to keep in mind. There are 2 ways you can customize your system – with suitable wallpapers and modifying the look of the system. If you’re looking for some cool, mind-blowing wallpapers, you have to find them on your own as it depends explicitly on the user’s mind. Here, we’ll be listing a handful of the system modifying themes.

Canta

This theme is a pretty awesome one. Canta is compatible with all the major desktop environments including the ones like Xfce, GNOME, Unity and all the other GTK 2 and GTK 3 based ones. The theme is also suitable for Linux Mint. This theme is a flat, material design that offers both a cool window look and icon pack. Let’s install it in our system.

At first, make sure that your system comes up with all the necessary dependencies. Run the following command:

After everything is set, get the theme from GitHub:

Run the installation of the theme:

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Install Linux Mint themes and icons in Ubuntu/its other derivatives (GTK + Xfce + Cinnamon)

Linux Mint is a Linux distribution for desktop computers, based on Ubuntu. Linux Mint is aimed at being a «modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.» Mint’s motto is «from freedom came elegance». Linux Mint theme is very elegant and fine, some people really like it. So I made themes and icons package for Ubuntu and other Ubuntu derivatives. It includes theme for GTK, Xfce, Cinnamon and I tested theme on Unity, Gnome Classic, Mate, Cinnamon, and Xfce.

Install Mint theme in Ubuntu open terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and enter following commands in Terminal:

Install Mint icons in Ubuntu open terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and enter following commands in Terminal:

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