Made by paulxfce
A clear and easy-on-the-eyes theme that is meant for those who use the XFCE/Gnome-desktop professionally on a daily basis. The focus in this theme is compatibility: GTK-2 applications and GTK-3 applications look virtually the same. Libre-office, Scribus, Evolution, Geary, Planner, GnuCash, LaTeXila, Geany, the Gimp, Inkscape,...
Chrome, firefox, Web and Opera have no issues with this theme.
About the looks, you will notice some Elementary-theme, Arc-theme and Gnome-OSX, in a darker version.
This is a XFCE-interpretation of my gnome-theme PRO-Dark-GTK.
IMPORTANT:
There are 3 versions available:
PRO-Dark-XFCE-Edition-I is the older XFCE-D-PRO which works fine with thunar below version 1.8
PRO-Dark-XFCE-Edition-II is the newer up-to-date version that requires Thunar 1.8 or above
PRO-Dark-XFCE-Edition 4.14 is an update to the newer XFCE-DE and GTK 3.22 up until GTK 3.34
How to install:
Download the theme,
Just copy the extracted file to a '.themes'-folder you make in your home directory.
Then use Appearance/ Window-manager to select the Style.
LOG OUT AND BACK IN for changes to take full effect !
The standard XFWM-windowmanager is used as the compositor, With the following specific settings in the Window Manager Tweaks:
- display compositing enabled.
- Synchronize drawing to the vertical blank enabled.
- Show shadows under dock windows enabled.
Opacity of popup windows is set more to the left (more transparency): this gives the translucency under the drop down-menu's. You can move the layer more to the left for more transparency.
Comments
Please comment if you see things broken, or want differently. I will post fixes as soon as possible.
Updates:
Version 4.14 updates to XFCE 4.14 and newer gnome-versions.
Version II is a fully up-to-date version for the new thunar (>=1.

Version 1.1 includes ALL the window-control-buttons of XFCE-titlebar
Version 1.2 is build on top of ubuntu 17.10, with a new whiskermenu and solution for the awkward behaviour of the desktop-icons.
Version 1.3 completed the making of the panel and Whisker-menu. This version is made to work on Xubuntu 17.10.
Version 1.4 Fix for the desktop-icons, re-theming of Thunar in Toolbar-style, re-adjusting GTK3-theme to match GTK2, overall lighter blue-selected-color and grey-ed menu-items all look the same; Further theming of Whisker-menu: Adjusted padding and margins to make it less clunky and added text-shadows to improve the font-rendering.
Version 1.5 correcting parsing-errors.
Version 1.6 bugfixes and license-requirements
Ratings & Comments
96 Comments
10 Looks good. :0
9 The Window manager looks incredible, but when I apply the theme the scroll bar gets big and ugly. Not sure how to fix that, but great work on this theme!
Viewnior 1.8 doesnt work with your theme. And is so nice. Can you repair it ?
Not downloading! 1/6/24
8 I like very much this theme, but it doesn't work very well on xubuntu 22.04 with xfce 4.16 The only thing that it doesnt work and it's very useful is when you start typing in the main menu to open an application, you can not use arrows to select other apps. Using other themes, there is not problem at all. Could you please fix it? If it's not too much to ask Using other themes, there it not problem at all
8 8 great
9 Splendid, thanks for your hard work.
10 10 the best
9 9 excellent Plays nice will all my applications and is easy on the eyes. Thanks!
10 10 the best....looks awesome and professional... a 1000 thxs
5 5 average
9 9 excellent
9 I was fed up with how badly Libre Office looked with a tabbed user interface while using Greybird GTK3 theme (that is otherwise a really great, greyish theme). Now I start Libre Office with PaulXfce's PRO-dark theme and it finally looks good : ) Thanks!
PS. I wish that PRO-dark was merged with MJV-dark, so that its :dark/darker variant looks as good as MJV-dark theme.
9 9 excellent
10 10 the best
I have a problem with xfce panel, the separator are not he same color https://ibb.co/Hr6R4GQ https://ibb.co/jD79pnm
10 10 the best
8 8 great
It causes xfce4-notes to use 100% of the CPU. It has to do with this bug: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7106
This theme prevents the Manzaro Linux ardour application from opening.
great theme. if you could make a metacity theme to use with compiz..:)
10 10 the best