README.md
1Greybird
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3Desktop Suite for Xfce
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5URL: https://github.com/shimmerproject/Greybird
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7Copyright 2009–2019 Simon Steinbeiß, Satyajit Sahoo, Pasi Lallinaho, Carson Black, Maurizio Galli
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9Greybird is dual-licensed as GPLv2 or later and CC-BY-SA 3.0 or later.
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11Greybird is the default theme in Xubuntu 11.04 onwards.
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13The Greybird desktop suite includes:
14- Gtk+2 theme
15- Gtk+3 theme
16- Xfwm4 themes (normal and compact)
17- xfce-notifyd theme (dark and bright)
18- Emerald theme
19- Metacity theme
20- Mutter theme
21- Gnome Shell theme
22- Plank theme
23- Unity support
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25Dependencies for Gtk+2 support:
26- gtk2-engines-murrine (>= 0.90)
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28The Gtk+3 theme uses the builtin engine and consequently has no dependencies.
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30### Build dependencies ###
31Debian or Ubuntu:
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33`sudo apt install autoconf libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libglib2.0-bin librsvg2-dev meson ruby-sass sassc`
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35Fedora:
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37`dnf install gdk-pixbuf2-devel librsvg2-devel meson rubygem-sass`
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39openSUSE:
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41`zypper in fdupes gdk-pixbuf-devel gdk-pixbuf-loader-rsvg glib2-devel meson sassc`
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43### Build and Install ###
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45#### Local (User) Install ####
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47```
48meson --prefix=$HOME/.local builddir
49cd builddir
50ninja
51ninja install
52ln -sf ~/.local/share/themes ~/.themes # Required for GTK2
53```
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55#### System Install ####
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57```
58meson --prefix=/usr builddir
59cd builddir
60ninja
61ninja install
62```
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64You don't need to use `sudo` anywhere in the build and install process, as Ninja will elevate with polkit when needed.
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