{"id":3234,"date":"2014-04-27T09:04:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T09:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2014-04-27T09:04:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T09:04:48","slug":"set-different-colors-on-folder-icons-in-ubuntu-14-0413-1012-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/set-different-colors-on-folder-icons-in-ubuntu-14-0413-1012-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Set Different Colors on Folder Icons in Ubuntu 14.04\/13.10\/12.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Folder-Icons-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Folder-Icons-1.jpg\" alt=\"Change Folder Color in Ubuntu\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Folder-Icons-1.jpg 230w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Folder-Icons-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to change the color of your folders in Nautilus file browser to get a better visual layout? Well, there&#8217;s a small extension for Nautilus can do the job in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy and Ubuntu 12.04 Precise.<\/p>\n<p>See my file browser:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Change-Folder-Color.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Change-Folder-Color.png\" alt=\"Change Folder Color in Ubuntu\" width=\"580\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Change-Folder-Color.png 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Change-Folder-Color-300x177.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far, the tool support following colors: Blue, Light Blue, Pink, Black, Yellow, Violet, Orange (Ubuntu&#8217;s default), Green, Gray, Red. Also there&#8217;s an option to reset to default.<\/p>\n<p><b>To install this simple tool<\/b>, Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costales\/folder-color\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install folder-color<\/pre>\n<p>Don&#8217;t like Ubuntu PPA? Download &#038; install the .deb package from <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~costales\/+archive\/folder-color\/+packages\" title=\"Folder Color in PPA\" target=\"_blank\">launchpad page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once installed, restart Nautilus via:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">nautilus -q<\/pre>\n<p>Finally you&#8217;re able to change a folder color in its context menu:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Change-Folder-Color1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Change-Folder-Color1.png\" alt=\"Different folder color ubuntu\" width=\"580\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Change-Folder-Color1.png 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Change-Folder-Color1-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Webpage: <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/folder-color\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/launchpad.net\/folder-color<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to change the color of your folders in Nautilus file browser to get a better visual layout? Well, there&#8217;s a small extension for Nautilus can do the job in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy and Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. See my file browser: So far, the tool support following colors: Blue, Light Blue, Pink, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1060,17,37,855],"class_list":["post-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-change-folder-colors","tag-ubuntu-12-04","tag-ubuntu-13-10","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234","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=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}