How to get Mac style title bar buttons on Ubuntu gnome without changing rest of the theme?

Question

I have installed arc theme on Ubuntu gnome and I am loving it, but I have one more wish that is to change the close, minimize, maximize buttons' style to that of the Mac OS X Yosemite.

Like this:

I want retain the rest of the theme and only change the title bar buttons.

Please do tell if there is a gnome extension to do so. Or is there a work around?

Thanks in advance..

Solution 1

I found a perfect theme that satisfies what I need -

Arc Flatabulous: https://github.com/andreisergiu98/arc-flatabulous-theme

There's also another one with not much differences on gnome-look called OSX-Arc, but the development of Arc-Flatabulous is more active than OSX-Arc

Solution 2

First you will need to find a theme with the buttons you want and install that theme.

You can find many OS X themes at gnome-look, search gtk3 theme in the type and osx in the description, though I will recommend you, based on your question, this nice flat Yosemite theme (Developers screenshot).

This should look really nice with the Arc theme, in my opinion.

Next install

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

When it is finished start this app from the launcher or

gnome-tweak-tool

Browse to the Appearance section and you will see this

Change the window theme to change your window declarations and gtk3 for the rest of the theme.

Solution 3

i'm using right now a theme from noobslab and they doing a great job, it makes everything to feel like osx!!

Here is the website http://www.noobslab.com/2016/04/macbuntu-1604-transformation-pack-for.html

if you follow the steps correctly you will have the same exactly result!!

Comments

[TheLinuxEvangelist]

But which theme should I apply whose window decorations has the Mac style buttons and does not differ much with arc??

[Mark Kirby]

I thought you wanted the window decorations from the arc theme ? Now I see you want arc theme but with the mac style window decorations, updating now.

[Mark Kirby]

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[TheLinuxEvangelist]

Though I didn't find any themes that matched the darker arc theme

[Mark Kirby]

Doubt there are many dark osx themes, as they copy the osx theme closely and that is a light theme, I did actually find one but it has dark buttons, not the coloured ones of Yosemite and is only gtk2, so won't work on Gnome 3 gnome-look.org/content/show.php/chris0-OSX-Black?content=739‌​45 I don't think what you want exists. You could try to make it, look in the Yosemite themes folder and see if you can make an edit.