{"id":1610,"date":"2013-09-11T08:14:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T08:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2013-09-12T06:46:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T06:46:11","slug":"how-to-change-nautilus-background-color-in-ubuntu-13-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/how-to-change-nautilus-background-color-in-ubuntu-13-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Nautilus Background Color in Ubuntu 13.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial shows you how to change the Nautilus file browser and other apps&#8217; background &#038; selected color if you&#8217;re boring with the default colors in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring.<\/p>\n<p>It can be easily done in Nautilus 3.4.x and 3.6.x via Dconf Editor. So this tutorial will also work for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal and Ubuntu 12.04 Precise.<\/p>\n<p>In the screenshots below, I changed the background color to sky blue and selected color to black.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/nautilus-color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/nautilus-color.jpg\" alt=\"nautilus colors\" width=\"468\" height=\"263\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/nautilus-color.jpg 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/nautilus-color-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/firefox-color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/firefox-color.jpg\" alt=\"firefox colors\" width=\"468\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/firefox-color.jpg 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/firefox-color-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To do it, open <b>Dconf Editor<\/b> from Unity Dash. Navigate to <b>org\/gnome\/desktop\/interface<\/b>, add or change the value of <b>gtk-color-scheme<\/b>. So that you can change the background color, tooltips color, text color, etc.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>bg_color:#C4E5F6;selected_bg_color:#000000;base_color:#888888;tooltip_fg_color:#ffffff;tooltip_bg_color:#ffffff;text_color:#000000<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/change-nautilus-color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/change-nautilus-color.jpg\" alt=\"change nautilus color\" width=\"468\" height=\"304\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/change-nautilus-color.jpg 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/change-nautilus-color-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To restore, just remove what you added. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial shows you how to change the Nautilus file browser and other apps&#8217; background &#038; selected color if you&#8217;re boring with the default colors in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring. It can be easily done in Nautilus 3.4.x and 3.6.x via Dconf Editor. So this tutorial will also work for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal and Ubuntu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[428,582,15],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modify-ubuntu","tag-nautilus","tag-nautilus-background","tag-ubuntu-13-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}