gold bars

GoldBars

GoldBars is a collection of GTK based themes with gold coloring and 3-dimensional icons. The package includes GTK2, GTK3, Metacity, XFWM and Openbox themes.

• Theme Homepage

How to Install

1. Download the latest file from the downloads directory
2. Open a Terminal application
3. Navigate to your Downloads folder in the terminal (usually titled Downloads). Type cd Downloads
4. Type ls and look for gold-bars-MM-DD-YY.tar.gz, where month, day and year represent when the file was last updated
5. Untar the file by typing tar -zxvf gold-bars-01-01-17.tar.gz, substituting the current version's date numbers
6. type cd again to get to your home folder; type ls -a and see if there is a .themes directory
7. If one does not exist, create one: mkdir .themes
8. cd Downloads
9. cp GoldBars ../.themes

To Install GoldBars Globally

1. Follow steps 1-5 above
2. cd /usr/share/themes
3. sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/JGD-Black /usr/share/themes
4. Enter sudo password
5. ls to check that the theme folder is present

To Install on Arch Linux:

GoldBars can be found in the Arch User Repository. To install, you can use an AUR helper:

yay -S goldbars

After Installation

Once installed, you can use a theme switching application such as LXAppearance or Gnome Tweak Tool to change the theme to GoldBars.

Metacity

You can switch the Metacity theme from the command line:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme GoldBars

The above setting worked in a Compiz environment in Arch. For other desktop environments, see the article Gnome Appearance modify command in Linux / How to change theme using command line in GNOME.

How to Install the Required Theme Engines

The latest GTK2 version of GoldBars requires the Murrine and Pixmap theme engines. To install:

Ubuntu and derivatives:

sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine

sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-pixbuf

ArchLinux and derivatives:

sudo pacman -S gtk-engine-murrine

sudo pacman -S gtk-engines

Note: The GTK3 version of this theme only works in version 3.20 and upwards.