Mako

ATTENTION: I started using Colloid instead of this, check it out!

A simple, modern and elegant grayscale theme for GTK+ desktops.

Notice

I currently use this as a personal install script to quickly setup a consistent GNU/Linux look and feel alongside my dot-files and vim-settings, primarily using gnome-shell as the DE.

Features

• A material design based grayscale interface, shell and gdm theme
• Simple, solid cursor default
• Rich, layered icon sets
• Beautiful background, grub theme, and lock screen
• Console and DE font configs
• Extra config files for Qt5 theme mapping, setting gdm cursor, etc

GTK+ Theme

The interface and gnome-shell theme uses Materia.

Colour palette was inspired by Vimix.

Cursor Theme

Uses the DMZ cursor.

Icon Theme

Primarily uses the Vertex icon set with fallback to the Paper icon set.

Background

The main background.jpg image is a grayscale version of the Jet in Carina Nebula background.

Fonts

• Term font: Inconsolata
• Desktop font: DejaVu Sans

Grub Theme

Based on Manjaro's grub-theme but modded to have a simple grayscale style with a different background image.

Gnome Shell Extensions

Some extensions I use to get Gnome even more customized.

• user-themes (installed by install.sh)
• vitals
• activities-configurator (start icons can be found in /usr/share/icons/mako/places/symbolic/start-here-*.png)
• always-indicator
• kstatus-notifier-item/appindicator-support
• alternate-tab
• dash-to-dock
• caffeine-ng or gnome-shell-extension-caffeine
• remove-dropdown-arrows
• remove-alt-tab-delay
• no-annoyance
• disable-workspace-switcher-popup
• applications-menu
• sound-and-input-device-chooser
• big-avatar

Supported OSes

• Arch/Manjaro
• Fedora/CentOS
• Ubuntu/Debian
• openSUSE (need to install gnome-extension-user-theme manually)
• macOS (just the fonts)

Requirements

• glib based DE such as gnome-shell or Unity (limited support on DEs like XFCE, etc)
• Xorg (gnome-shell extensions + Wayland not 100%)

Install

$ git clone git@github.com:brentlintner/mako.git ~/.mako
$ cd ~/.mako
$ ./install.sh
$ sudo reboot

Note: On OSes without sudo it might be way less annoying to just run install.sh as root.

Uninstall

$ cd ~/.mako
$ ./install.sh --revert
$ sudo reboot

Note: still leaves various system packages installed/set (ex: fonts).