MENT2K

XFCE / Xubuntu Windows 2000 look and feel.

Click here for more screenshots

A fork of the Chicago95 theme which looks like Windows 2000 and focuses on details.

Included in this theme:

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

Navigate to the project folder in Thunar after extracting it, and then right-click in an empty area.

Click on "Open Terminal Here" and write this into the terminal that pops up:

sh install.sh

OR

Write this into the terminal:

git clone https://github.com/User738git/MENT2K.git

cd ~/MENT2K

sh install.sh`

Notice: The install-script is an early WP. I (The maintainer of MENT2K) won't take any responbility for broken systems.

Manual installation

If you prefer to install MENT2K manually, manual instructions will be added soon to INSTALL.md.

Changed your mind?

An uninstall script will be added when I get time.

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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Notice

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