It's been a while I don't write on this blog. Today, I will start a new blog post about the upcoming Manjaro 18.0. Currently, it still in Beta version but we can download and try it. I would recommend to test it on a virtual machine or Live USB. Installing Manjaro 18.0 unstable on a production machine is not recommended.
Before we dig into the tutorial, let's see how my Manjaro 18.0 with Mac theme looks like. I am using Manjaro 18.0 GNOME edition which is great.
Before we dig into the tutorial, let's see how my Manjaro 18.0 with Mac theme looks like. I am using Manjaro 18.0 GNOME edition which is great.
Well, it is not perfect but I think these are the best Mac OS theme for Linux. I tried several version but still, I am in love with this one.
So, which theme and how to use it?
OK, first, have a look at this article and download required files from there. Or, you can click the link below to download the files directly:
- Sierra-light.tar.xz : The Mac OS X GTK3 theme light version
- Sierra-dark.tar.xz : The Mac OS X GTK3 theme dark version (as shown above)
- MacOSX-icon-theme.tar.xz : Mac OS X Icon theme
- HighSierra-Wallpapers.tar.xz : Mac OS X High Sierra Wallpapers
- MacOSX-cursors.tar.xz : Mac OS X cursor
- Fonts-MyriadSetPro.tar.xz : Mac OS X fonts
There are some other themes such as Sierra-light-thin version, please check out the original website for more information.
How to Install
Install GTK Themes
First, let's install the GTK3 themes we just downloaded. Extract the Sierra-light.tar.xz and Sierra-dark.tar.xz. It will produce new folders : sierra-light and sierra-dark. And then move the extracted folders to /usr/share/themes. You can use the following command to move the folders.
sudo mv sierra-light /usr/share/themes
sudo mv sierra-light /usr/share/themes
At this point, we have successfully installed the Mac OS X Sierra GTK themes on Manjaro 18.0.
Install Mac OS X Icon Theme
Next, extract the file MacOSX-icon-theme.tar.gz. It will produce a new folder called MacOSX. You need to move this folder to /usr/share/icons.
sudo mv MacOSX /usr/share/icons
In case you don't know how to extract the .tar.xz files, you can use this command
tar -xvf MacOSX-icon-theme.tar.xz
At this point, we have successfully installed Mac OS X icon theme on Manjaro.
Install Mac OS X Cursor
Now, we are going to install the Mac OS X cursor. Extract the file MacOSX-cursor.tar.xz and move the content of extracted folder to /usr/share/themes.
tar -xvf MacOSX-cursors.tar.xz
cd MacOSX-cursors
sudo mv capitaine-cursors /usr/share/themes
Please note that we need to move the capitaine-cursors subfolder, not the MacOSX-cursors folder.
Install Mac OS X Fonts
Extract the Myriadset font and you will see some fonts like this:
To install the fonts, simply double-click each font and then click the install button. That's it, now we are ready to configure Manjaro using Gnome Tweaks.
Apply the Mac OS X Theme
Open Tweaks, and then select theme, icon, cursor and some other things. See my settings below.
Don't forget to change the font
Conclusion
It takes some steps to make Manjaro 18.0 looks like Mac OS X. If you follow the steps on this article, you should be able to get the same result as mine. Thanks for reading and don't forget to share this article. Cheers.