Obsidian

Fork of the elegant Mint-Y-Dark theme for Cinnamon Desktop Environment using transparency and dark UI elements.

Installation

Automatic

1. Install via Cinnamon's Themes module in Cinnamon settings or download from Cinnamon Spices and unzip into your ~/.themes directory.
2. Open the Themes app, and on Desktop select Obsidian.

Manual

1. git clone https://github.com/Mario-paul/obsidian-theme.git
2. cd obsidian-theme/
3. cp -r "Obsidian"/ ~/.themes/
4. Open the Themes app, and on Desktop select Obsidian.
5. optional: Remaining obsidian-theme directory can be safely deleted.

Compatibility

This theme was created and tested with Cinnamon version 5.0.5. Cinnamon versions 4.x.x+ likely work fine but have not been tested, and versions older than that might or might not work.

My setup

Wallpaper: Firewatch
Window Borders: Mint-Y-Dark
Icons: Papirus-Dark
Controls: Mint-Y-Dark
Mouse Pointer: DMZ-Black
Desktop: Obsidian

Customization

For help customizing the accent color or transparency effect, check the customize-readme.txt file inside the cinnamon folder.

Other info

This theme is based on Mint-Y-Dark, which itself is based on horst3180's Arc theme. However, most desktop elements have been colored black and given transparency, carefully adjusted so they are not only pleasing to look at, but also usable (ie. not so transparent that it's difficult to read text). Some of these elements are the desktop panel, menu, OSD, window switcher list (alt + tab), grouped window list thumbnail, as well as run dialog box.

gtk3 elements (like program windows) and metacity elements (program title bars) have not been modified. I would love to modify them, but there is the issue of usability in case you have many windows open and overlaid over each other so they probably better left untouched.