GtkSourceView style schemes

This page contains third party styles for GtkSourceView based editors. Note that themes for GtkSourceView 2 are compatible with GtkSourceView 3.

How to install

To install a style just place its XML file into a folder of the style search path.

GtkSourceView 2

A typical search path for GtkSourceView version 2 looks like:

1. ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/

2. /usr/share/gnome/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/

3. /usr/local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/

4. /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/

If this does not work in your distribution you can find out your style search path with this python script. To run it you need the python bindings for GtkSourceView 2. In Debian-based distributions this is package python-gtksourceview2.

GtkSourceView 3

A typical search path for GtkSourceView version 3 looks like:

1. ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/

2. /usr/share/gnome/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/

3. /usr/local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/

4. /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/

List of styles

Light styles

• Build

  • Emphasis on readability. Easy on the eyes for extended programming. Screenshot | Download

• Blue Dream

  • A light, clean theme. Screenshot | Download

• Chela light

  • ported from gvim. Screenshot | Download

• Daylight

  • A bright theme with a pale yellow background, mainly intended for use with respective LaTeX and R .lang files. Screenshot | Download

• Fluffy

  • A light theme with bright colors. Screenshot | Download

• Vibrant

  • Vibrant colors for your viewing pleasure. Screenshot | Download

Dark styles

• Monokai Extended

  • A dark theme inspired to SublimeText Monokai Extended theme. Screenshot | Download

• Darkmate

  • A dark theme inspired to Textmate colors with also specific syntax highlight for Ruby. Screenshot | Download

• Omega

  • A dark theme, easy on the eyes. Derived from the Oblivion theme. Screenshot | Download

• InkPot

  • A port of the vim theme of the same name. Screenshot | Download

• GreenScreen

  • Good for XML and PHP at night... Screenshot | Download

• Matrix

  • The Matrix Console for hardcore fans :). Screenshot | Download

Styles emulating other editors

• Dreamweaver

  • A theme based on Macromedia Dreamweaver (phps colors). Screenshot | Download

• Emacs

  • GNU Emacs colors. Download | Download

• Emacs Dark

  • A dark theme based on gnu emacs default colors circa redhat 5.2 (dark slate grey / wheat). Screenshot | Download (see also this .gtkrc-2.0 file if you want a larger cursor)

• Espresso Libre (Pastie.org)

  • An adaptation of the "Espresso Libre" theme from Pastie.org, using various nuances of brown. Screenshot | Download

• Turbo

  • Blue backgrond, yellow text, white keywords... if you ever used Borland turbo pascal and turbo c you know what I am talking about. Screenshot | Download

• InkPot

  • A port of the vim theme of the same name. Screenshot | Download

• VSDark

  • Inspired from the dark theme from Visual Studio 2012 Screenshot | Download

GHOP Styles

All five of the following themes were created by Will Farrington as a task for Google Highly Open Participation 2007.

• Cobalt

  • A dark theme based on blues with medium contrast. Screenshot | Download

• Darkmacs

  • A dark, high-contrast theme based on Alexandre Vassalotti's dark emacs theme. Screenshot | Download

• IDLE

  • A light, high-contrast theme based on the theme of the same name at pastie.caboo.se (which is in turn based on the scheme used by the Python IDE, IDLE. Screenshot | Download

• Slush and Poppies

  • A dark, medium-contrast theme based on the theme of the same name at pastie.caboo.se. Screenshot | Download

• Twilight

  • A dark, low-contrast theme based on the theme of the same name at pastie.caboo.se. Screenshot | Download

All screenshots of themes as of SVN r15.

GMate styles

This is a selection of styles from the GMate project, which contains dozens of styles based on other editors such as TextMate, Vim or Emacs.

• CodeZone

  • A dark, colorful theme with balanced contrast. Screenshot | Download

• Mustang

  • A dark theme, primarily focused on green and bluish gray. Screenshot | Download

• Slate

  • A dark theme with a bluish background, and a broad color palette. Screenshot | Download

• Tomorrow Night - Eighties

  • A dark, low-contrast theme with a broad color palette. Screenshot | Download

Misc

• neutraleye

Resources

• GtkSourceSchemer - color scheme editor for GtkSourceView/gedit.

• Scribd theme generator - online interactive tool that generates gtksourceview-compatible themes

• badschemer: A utility for creating and editing GtkSourceView2 style schemes. (i386 deb | amd64 deb)

• vim2gtksourceview2: A script to convert vim themes to gtksourceview 2.0 themes.

• several styles have been uploaded to gnome-look.org

Comments

Rather than listing themes on this page, we should try to get a section at http://art.gnome.org similar to this list for Vim. It really helps people a lot if they don't have to browse for different screenshots (which might even vary in quality once people start contributing their own schemes). -- SvenHerzberg