Equilux4K Theme for Xfce

The Equilux4K provides a full-dark, neutral-gray theme for Xfce in 4K.

Supports:

• Xfce
• LightDM and GDM
• Chromium

It is based on the Equilux Theme. Users looking for Gnome, Budgie, MATE or othe GTK desktop environment please feel free to try out the original Equilux Theme instead.

Motivation

4K (UHD) Support: Visual elements are optimized for 4K resolution. 2x Window Scaling recommended.

As with the original Equilux theme, it also inherits a neutral dark-balanced colour-scheme not designed to be fancy, but to be useful for a few specific goals.

1. Minimize eye strain: when you pass many hours in front of the screen or you are hyper-sensitive to light, saturation and contrast, your eyes will benefit from a dull UI

2. Avoid disrupting your circadian rhythms: a neutral colour-cast-free UI helps your body to produce enough melatonin at night time and sleep better, working nicely with software like f.lux, redshift, NightLight, ...

3. Professional use in image editing, graphic design, 3D rendering: in that fields any colour cast or excessive contrast, brightness or darkness introduced by the UI would affect the overall perception of the colour and balance of the images

4. You may just like it: even if the style is not the main goal, many people find that its very clean and minimalistic UI looks cool and professional

Technical Focus

• Optimized for 4K resolution
• Total removal of any colour cast from the background elements (neutral base)
• Use of a neutral base for all the UI elements, with exception of a few button/boxes
• Maximum reduction of contrast/saturation
• Medium overall brightness/darkness of the UI

Changes from the Equilux Theme

• Title bar and its button icons are optimized for 4K
• Font choices are completely by the users

Installation

Arch: yay -S

General: Download the latest equilux-theme-*.tar.xz version listed in the Files tab here, unzip it and move the Equilux* dirs to /usr/share/themes. As an alternative you can download the source of the latest release here and run the install.sh script as privileged user.

Uninstallation

Delete the installed directories: sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/Equilux{,-compact}

GDM Theme Installation/Uninstallation

See the the upstream instruction here.

Related Items

A quick list of items that - for different reasons - fit well with the Equilux style and concept. Please, submit your suggestions as a new Issue, so I will add a note in this section.

Wallpapers

Seamless textures from various sources and authors, converted to low contrast/brightness grayscale available in the Files tab here

Icons

• elementary-xfce: This is an icon-theme maintained with Xfce in mind, but it should work on other desktops like Gnome3 as well.

• Circle Numix Icons: a circle themed icon set well maintained and not too bright (if you use Numix Folders below to tame the folder colors)

• Numix Folders: Customization script to change the colors and style of the numix folders (otherwise too bright and saturated). Recommended settings: Style: 6, Primary color: #9c9c9c, Secondary color; #9c9c9c, Symbol: #656565

• Zafiro icons: a flat theme with "washed" pastel colors

• Papirus-Icon-Theme: a flat, sticker-like icon theme with a few variants (recommended Papirus-Dark)

• Papirus Folders Script: Customization script to change the colors of the papirus folders. Recommended command: papirus-folders -C grey --theme Papirus-Dark

App Themes and Settings

• Equilux-Telegram

• Equilux-Flubox

• HexChat: the Zenburn theme fits well with Equilux

• Smyck terminal: a script to use SMYCK palette in GNOME Terminal

• Equilux-Firefox: an Equilux color scheme for Firefox userContent.css and userChrome.css.

• Tint2: tint2 panel theme that matches Equilux.

• TBD: add the style settings consistent with the Equilux Palette for apps like Vivaldi, Tilix, RubyMine, SmartGit, DeepGit, ...

Browser Extensions

• Dark Reader: Chrome and FireFox extension that inverts brightness of web pages and aims to reduce eyestrain while browsing the web.

Branches

Master is always the upstream master: no changes from the base theme there. The equilux-* branch(es) are the branches with the changes from the upstream master. Please, notice that the *-dev branches are getting rebased on top of master at each new release. The old versions will be tagged and will not be removed/rebased.

License

This Theme is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for details.

Credits

• All credits go to the Equilux Theme and Materia Theme, their authors and contributors.