Tokyo Night Linux theme

This collection is aimed to make your Linux environment look like the vscode Tokyo Night theme. This is currently still a WIP, so expect colour inconsistencies or unthemed applications.

Although replacing your icon theme is not required, this theme goes well with the Numix icon theme.

The GTK theme was made by modifying the Material Black theme

The included Discord theme is pulled from here Tokyo Night (Credits to @Dyzean for the suggestion)

If you are using KDE Plasma, you can use the Kvantum Tokyo Night theme (Credits to @JuniorSuperTux for the suggestion)

Dependencies

Theming

• lxappearance: Can be used to apply the GTK theme
• gnome-tweaks: Can be used to apply the GTK theme
• spicetify-cli: Used to apply the Spotify theme
• betterdiscord: Used to apply the Discord theme
• betterdiscordctl: Used to install betterdiscord
• VS code Tokyo Night theme

Optional Utils

• powerline: Status bar for Bash. For example, it shows you what Git repo you are in
• kava, neofetch, lolcat, cowsay, wisdom-mod, bash-pipes, cbonsai: important stuff
• bpytop: resource monitor
• nm-applet: manage your (wireless) connections and has a tray icon
• kalu-kde: Notifies you about Arch news or updates and has a tray icon
• logiops: Used to trigger keyboard combinations using gestures
• blueman: bluetooth tray icon
• gdm-tools-git: If using GDM to login to a user (and select between multiple window managers), use this to set the theme

When using I3 as window manager

• clipit: Clipboard manager
• picom-ibhagwan-git: If you want transparent and rounded borders in I3
• polybar: Status bar
• polybar-themes: Is included in the repo, but should be installed separately as well to get all their dependencies.
• autotiling: Automatically sets in which direction a window will split based on if the parent container is wider or taller
• rofi: Used as a program launcher and power menu
• arandr: Used to manually set monitor properties
• maim: screen capture
• xclip: X selection to clipboard
• bynanz: record screen to gif
• hsetroot: to change the background colour when picom is running

When using Sway as window manager

• autotiling: Automatically sets in which direction a window will split based on if the parent container is wider or taller
• kanshi: Used to automatically set monitor properties
• rofi: Used as a program launcher and power menu
• clipman: Clipboard manager
• Waybar: Status bar
• mako: Used for notifications
• slurp: wayland selection to clipboard
• grim: screenshot utility for wayland
• wf-recorder: record screen to video

File overview and Configuration

File Index

• .config

  • BetterDiscord: Contains theme files for Discord
  • gtk-3.0: Sets some theme settings
  • i3: Example i3 config with auto starting applications, borders and gaps settings, etc
  • kanshi: Example config for using Kanshi to set your wayland monitors
  • Picom: Example config for enabling transparency and rounded corners when using I3.
  • Polybar: Theme and config for the status bar when using I3 with modules n shit enabled
  • Spicetify: Contains theme for modifying Spotify
  • Sway: Example sway config with auto starting applications, borders and gaps settings, etc
  • Waybar: Theme and config for the status bar when using Sway
  • Wofi: Actually contains an example config and theme for Rofi and Wofi, although we are using Rofi in the configs

• /etc/logid.conf: Optional example configuration for the Logitech MX Master mouse, using gestures to call certain key combinations set in the I3/Sway config

• /usr/share/themes/UltimateBlack-0.1: GTK theme. Will be updated and renamed in the near future.

• .bash_profile: Optional example config. Runs when you login (including via SSH). contains commented code to autostart xorg (and I3)

• .bashrc: Optional example config. Runs whenever a new terminal is opened. Example config with ST and Powerline

• .vimrc: Optional example vim config

• .Xdefaults: Optional example config. Edit terminal colours and urxvt settings when using Sway as window manager

• .xinitrc: Optional example config. Runs on X server startup and starts I3

• .Xresources: Optional example config. Edit terminal colours and urxvt settings when using I3 as window manager

Configuration

• GTK theme: If certain colours aren't to your liking, you can grep -rl "old_string" . | xargs sed -i 's/old_string/new_string/g' to replace specific colour codes quickly. If you go this route you might want to do this to the source, since the original theme has more different colours.
• Spotify: Manually edit ./config/spicetify/Themes/Base/color.ini
• Polybar comes bundled with various modules. Check out their wiki for more info. Also check out the readme of polybar-themes if you are using I3.
• Picom can be be configured for more or less transparency or different kinds of blur. The included config uses dual-kawase blur which goes over an image as background

Installation

Copying files

All the files go into your home directory, except for:

• /etc/logid.conf
• /usr/share/themes/TokyoNight

If using polybar-themes, install it from the original source first to get all their dependencies and fonts. Then you can overwrite their files with the included ones.

Apply Theme

• GTK: Run lxappearance and/or gnome-tweaks and select the included theme
• Spotify:
  • Run spicetify once to generate a config file
  • Run spicetify backup apply enable-devtool to backup the default theme
  • Run spicetify config current_theme Base to set the current theme to the one we provide
  • Run spicetify apply and restart spotify
• Discord: After running betterdiscordctl install go into the newly added Better Discord entry in the settings menu.
• GDM: Run gnomeconf2gdm (from gdm-tools-git) after applying the GTK theme to set the colour scheme of the login screen

Notes

• GDM does not start .xinitrc . If you are using I3, it is easier to just type in startx after logging in
• Certain GTK programs, like Gimp and Firefox, might have to be set to follow the system theme from their settings
• A modified version of console-solarized-git is coming in order to modify the Linux shell colours to match our theme.

Screenshots

I3 with Polybar

Sway with Waybar