Solus Budgie Themes Transfer

cornwell64

Hello Forum!
I kind of fell in love with how beautiful out-of-box solus Budgie is. The theme of terminal and general feel that I don't have to change any theme whatsoever just clicked with me. Such to extent that I wanted to transfer all of the styles that make Solus so chic to my long-used Manjaro Budgie installation.

Could someone guide me through that? What I need is to transfer style of gnome-terminal (layout of buttons (see note below), color, transparency, nano syntax highlighting and possibly other programs colored output that I don't know about yet). I'm kind of new to this stuff and I don't even know.

One more thing about this "button layout": on Solus it's "File, Edit, View etc" whereas on Manjaro there are just three big buttons (new tab, search, and three-dot menu)(take a look: Does that just depends on the version of gnome-terminal or does it comes from a theme? I also noticed that souls gnome-terminal has "Background transparency" whereas Manjaro gnome-terminal doesn't have this option.

Sorry for making this cross-distro question, but I feel kind of lost after browsing through dconf (if that is even the place where I sould be searching) and checking various directories proposed by different communities (like _{/.config/dconf,} _/.gconf/ etc.).

Versions of gnome-terminals:

on Solus it's 3.28.2
on Manjaro it's 3.34.2

Thanks for any responses and, hopefully, any help!

Scotty-Trees

You kind of already answered part of your own question. You are using two different versions, therefore things will be different. If you keep your Solus distro up to date (3.28 was quite some time ago), you would have gotten a new version of Terminal that would look exactly like the version you have in Manjaro. Solus updates generally come out every Friday, so the fact that you are still on 3.28 is a bit worrisome in my opinion as we've gone through two stack upgrades since then and a few security fixes as well. It's really recommended to keep up to date to maintain the best possible experience.

As for the GNOME Terminal transparency setting, I don't have version 3.28, but if it is the same as the 3.34 version then under the Profile>Colors tab there is the option under Text and Background Color called Transparent Background that you can slide back and forth to get that transparency look.

As for the rest of the color palette to make it look like the Tango one that is used in Solus, what I do is I take a screenshot of it, open it up in GIMP and use the Color Picker Tool and click each color and it'll give you the color profile HTML notation code (i.e. FFFFFF for the color white) you can then plug into the Terminal. A bit time consuming perhaps, but you'll only need to do it once. I can only assume these settings could be exported somehow, but for that I am not familiar. Hope that helps a bit and good luck!

cornwell64

Thank you both for giving me thorough instructions!

Scotty-Trees if it is the same as the 3.34 version then under the Profile>Colors tab there is the option under Text and Background Color called Transparent Background that you can slide back and forth to get that transparency look.

Turns out that Manjaro's gnome-terminal doesn't have that feature by default. But there are some packages in AUR like gnome-terminal-transparency that adds transparency, so that solved my problem.

kyrios The 3 dots things you don't like are there is Solus as well since this comes from gnome apps

Yes, you were right that these two versions differ in the button layout. I updated packages on Solus and got the same result. The only difference is that Solus has built-in Background transparency whereas the same version of terminal that is provided on Manjaro doesn't have that feature by default.

kyrios The default theme of Solus 4 is Plata Noir

Already figured out that part, but thanks anyway!
Also meanwhile I figured out that the colors on my username@hostname are stored in a variable named PS1. Everyday man can learn something new!

Thank you both one more time for very informative answers and fast replies!

kyrios

The default theme of Solus 4 is Plata Noir. For the rest, just go in the Budgie settings to check the fonts, icons & cursor theme.
Transparency & co aren't part of the theme, these are things you can change in the gnome terminal preferences.

The 3 dots things you don't like are there is Solus as well since this comes from gnome apps. The reason you don't have them is because your system isn't up-to-date and you are using the version of the apps that were available when the iso was released.