MENT2K

XFCE / Xubuntu Windows 2000 look and feel.

Click here for more screenshots

A fork of the Chicago95 theme which looks like Windows 2000.

Included in this theme:

• A look-alike start menu.
• A bordered system tray.
• Custom icon theme. (Forked from SE98)
• etc.

Requirements:

• GTK3+
• Xfce 4.12 - 4.21.
• gtk2-engines-pixbuf (Recommended for GTK2 applications).
• The xfce4-panel-profiles package.
• A Window compositor (Picom).
• Marco window manager for gradient titlebars.

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Documentation

Click here for Chicago95 documentation and extra features (just from Chicago95).

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Installation

Just put "MENT2K" which is located in /Theme/ in this repo into ~/.themes. And put "Idk2k" which is located in /Icons/ in this repo into ~/.icons.

Remember to apply the themes and write "xfce4-panel --restart" in the terminal when you are finished rearranging icons on the xfce panel.

An install script is added, but is currently only for testing purposes. Use at your own risk!

Install the LibreOffice icon theme from Chicago95:

Click here for installing the LibreOffice Chicago95 icon theme.

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Pictures

Desktop comparison (Picture 1 taken from Windows 2000)

Start menu

Login screen

Thunar top bar

The theme in action on a CRT-monitor.

Screenshots:

Click here to view screenshots

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Projects by other people you should check out:

Chicago95

Redmond97

Ice2K.sys

xfce-winxp-tc

aerothemeplasma

SE98

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Forked code

Chicago95: https://github.com/grassmunk/chicago95

Redmond97: https://github.com/matthewmx86/Redmond97

SE98: https://github.com/nestoris/Win98SE

Code and license

License: GPL-3.0+/MIT

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