Jason G. Designs

Introduction

Oomox is a very popular GTK and icon theme generator that lets users create custom themes and color schemes for the desktop.This idea saves a lot of time from designing a theme from scratch. In this tutorial, we will generate an Oomox theme from one of its presets.

Step 1

• Open Oomox from your GUI or, alternatively from typing oomox-gui into a command line
• We will choose one of the preset themes from the menu on the left; in the case of this tutorial, let’s choose gnome-colors/shiki-dust
• When you make changes and Save, it saves to a new menu location. Since I previously done so, there is already a separate entry

Step 2

• In Oomox, notice that you can base your theme from Numix, Arc or Materia. Numix is the standard, so we will choose that here
• Let’s change the icon theme’s style to Archdroid

Step 3

• Save the theme in Oomox
• Export the theme
• We will also choose the option to generate a theme for the Cinnamon desktop environment
• The theme will save to your .themes folder

Step 4

• Navigate to your .themes folder in a file manager. This folder might be hidden, so enable Show Hidden Files in your file manager
• In your .themes folder, you can now see an oomox-shiki-dust folder has been created
• Looking inside, you can see the number of themes that have been generated
• Open theme switcher application from your desktop. In my case, I’m using LXAppearance in Openbox
• Check that our chosen theme appears under the title oomox-shiki-dust

Step 5

• Optionally, if you are using Openbox, you can look for the window theme in Openbox Configuration Manager
• Clicking on the theme will change it immediately

Step 6

• Back in Oomox, let’s generate the icon theme
• In our theme switcher, we can preview what the icons look like under the same name as the theme

Conclusion

That’s all there is to it for a great looking theme collection with very little effort. I think the Shiki Dust design is among the attractive ones I have seen in the presets. Of course, you can customize the colors or come up with an all new color scheme.

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Tags for this post: GTK, Linux, Oomox