Description: Redmond97 SE Windows 95/NT4 UI for GTK2/3/4, Qt5/6 and Wine v1.30 / 2025 Sliver X
Included Themes --------------- New (Dark) Themes: Redmond97 SE Ouroboros Redmond97 SE Dusk (Three accent colors) Redmond97 SE Jet (Three accent colors)
Windows Themes: Windows 95 (All) Windows 95 Plus! (All) Windows 98 SE (Baseball, Jungle, Space and Underwater) Windows XP (Classic Theme)
All themes also have 2x integer scaled Xfwm4 variants for use with Xfce4's 2x window rendering option.
An included script can be used to create new themes from templates as well.
Usage ----- Place under ~/.themes or under a global system folder if desired.
GTK2/3/4: Select a theme/fonts/etc with your distro's theme selector/a terminal/text editor.
Wine: Import the theme's .reg file into a prefix with Wine's regedit.exe
Qt5: qt5ct and qt5-styleplugins (Or whatever package the QT5 GTK theme resides in for your distro) need installed and GTK/fonts/etc set under qt5ct. [ export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qt5ct" ] (Without the brackets) must be set somewhere such as in ~/.profile as well.
Qt6: qt6ct and qt6gtk2 need installed and GTK set under qt6ct. The QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qt5ct" variable works for it as well.
Theme generator script ---------------------- To use the script:
Run gen_theme.sh to build/install the default Ouroboros theme, or edit theme.conf to generate a new one.
-OR-
-Edit copy/edit a theme to set the desired colors. 6 digit and 3 digit hex codes or RGB color codes must be used. -Run ./gen_theme.sh with the .conf file as an argument to compile and install it to ~/.themes
Alternatively, make-install-all-presets.sh will build everything under the presets directory.
Files are installed to ~/.themes/"$THEME_NAME" and ~/.themes/"$THEME_NAME"-HiDPI if enabled in the configuraton file.
Why --- This initially started because I wanted a dark theme with non-flat controls and colors. Windows 95's UI glyphs are very clean and visually clear, so I developed several based on the excellent Redmond97 theme.
However, GTK4 was not supported in it, and I wanted an easy way to get the themes working for Wine as well.
GTK4 support should be mostly complete and bug free as of v1.30. Redmond97 has a very nice CSD scheme for GTK3, but due to how a lot of GTK4 programs use the CSD header bar in 2025 there isn't really a way to make it work that way for them, at least well, so I've made both GTK3 and GTK4 use a common chunky button scheme that behaves consistently across them and can accommodate things like Title+Subtitle headers without cutting off text. Their coloration also behaves like active/inactive WM titles.
The generator script has been extended to create .reg files for usage in Wine based on the final GTK theme output. These will also work in real Windows XP, 2000, and Win95/98/Me installations for what that's worth, too. Vista, 7, 8 and 10 (Before they removed access to the Classic theme) have not been tested.
If there are any issues, please email me and I'll see what I can do about it. Or, if you're actually good at GTK theming, feel free to improve/base work off of all this.
Known Issues ------------ None.
Credits ------- Sliver X Redmond 97 SE (GTK4/Wine/Etc)
parhelion22 Greymond (Bits of GTK4 CSS/reference): https://github.com/parhelion22/xfce-theme-greymondLast changelog:
v1.30
v1.30 ~~~~~ 1) Completely rebuilt GTK4 schema and GTK3's CSD styling. 2) Fixed sizes for all combobox states. 3) Fixed all remaining CSD theming quirks. 3) Added HiDPI Xfwm4 themes with all elements integer scaled 2x.
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