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Installing and Setting Up Arc Theme (Dark) in Ubuntu 16.04

Shou Arisaka
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Oct 9, 2025

Launch settings with gnome-tweak-tool, and select Arc theme in appearance > GTK+.

"Arc-Dark" reminds you of Atom, cool and easy on the eyes - a recommended theme. Can also be installed on other distributions like Fedora and other versions.

# To build the theme the follwing packages are required
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y autoconf
sudo apt-get install -y automake
sudo apt-get install -y gtk2-engines-murrine
sudo apt-get install -y libgtk-3-dev
sudo apt-get install -y gnome-tweak-tool
sudo apt-get update

# Clone the git repository with
git clone https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme --depth 1 && cd arc-theme

# 2. Build and install the theme
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
sudo make install
  • Other themes There are various other themes, including Windows and Mac-like interfaces.

Reference: https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme)[https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme

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