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I been looking for themes for Mate and I like to add another one if I can. If anyone can help please do

Jack wrote:I been looking for themes for Mate and I like to add another one if I can. If anyone can help please do

I tried it here : http://gnome-look.org/?xsection=home

For years I have been looking for themes that:
Were both pleasing to the eye AND functional and not overly pompous.

I highly recommend Skeuos theme

I think this theme pretty much meets my requirements. Although it still maintains that flat look that sometimes makes it difficult to distinguish where one window ends and another begins, it offers a subtle (convenient) highlighting that makes edges easier on the eyes. Then it has the advantage of being able to choose between a dark menu and the rest of the window light. In addition, in XFCE it solves the problem of window resizing by making the corner handles have a wider threshold, which was a real headache.

Finally, it has versions that add large or extra large buttons in the title bar in case you are using a larger screen.

Over time of use and because of “distro hopping” I have been moving towards less and less desktop customization, to the point of almost setting very few things.
One of the few things I miss in xfce actually is being able to do the negative of a single window at a time (I used to do it with concompiz but then it was defunct), in fact if anyone knows how to do that...

Another thing that is not a theme but that I always wanted was an animated wallpaper.
I finally got it, not the best, however it is acceptable.
I am using “xwinwrap”, using it with mpv. It more or less consumes 60-100mb of ram and 1-3% of cpu constantly, so it might be undesirable (however if you use gif viewer instead of mpv it is lighter, but I needed to apply mpv filters).
This is the startup line This is the gif that I am using


Now I am too lazy to make a video but substantially it tries to simulate a fog on a black background which for me is relaxing
P.s. used this way it hides the icons (which I don't use anyway), you can set it to semi-transparent but that way it seems to prevent mouse clicks from reaching the desktop.
If anyone knows a better way, I'm listening

At least on the mate desktop, the black theme is perfect... in my opinion, all operating systems should come with a default theme that meets the following two conditions:
> FIRST. It should be dark
> SECOND. It should have high contrast -preferably without blue-

PCLinuxOS included the adwaita-gray theme since 2020 and it is unequaled!
https://pkgs.org/download/gtk-theme-Adwaita-Gray

M. Eerie wrote: ↑

10 Feb 2025, 10:24

Totally agree with you about blue.
only I realized one thing, in very bright situations having a dark theme becomes less visible.
That's why when I was using compiz for me it was very convenient to be able to do the negative of each window separately so that I could instantly alternate between a black orientation and a light orientation.
Except that compiz is no longer there