This guide shows how to setup the vimix gnome theme in Fedora. I use this theme on all my Linux desktop environments and I’m really satisfied with it.

Install

Dependencies

sudo dnf install gtk-murrine-engine gtk2-engines gnome-tweaks

Theme

The following will setup the theme in ~/.themes.

# Clone the repository in /tmp folder so we do not have 
# to remove it manually afterards.
cd /tmp
git clone git@github.com:vinceliuice/vimix-gtk-themes.git
cd vimix-gtk-themes
./install.sh

# See if the files are there
ls -hal ~/.themes

Go to https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/19/user-themes/ and enable the plugin.

Now you can change the theme using the gnome-tweaks tool.

Icons

The following will setup the icons in .local/share/icons.

# Clone the repository in /tmp folder so we do not have
# to remove it manually afterwards.
cd /tmp
git clone git@github.com:vinceliuice/vimix-icon-theme.git
cd vimix-icon-theme
./install.sh

# See if the files are there
ls -hal ~/.local/share/icons

You can change the theme through the gnome-tweaks tool.

Troubleshooting 💣

Design is not applied to all windows …

The windows where the theme is not applied are probably flatpak or snap apps. These applications will not use the theme of gnome 🤷

Sources

• vimix-gtk-themes (opens new window)
• vimix-icon-theme (opens new window)