{"id":7663,"date":"2018-04-16T15:52:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7663"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:52:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:52:04","slug":"change-color-folder-icons-ubuntu-1804","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/change-color-folder-icons-ubuntu-1804\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change the Color of Folder Icons in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/folder-color-icon.png\" alt=\"Change Folder Color\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6025\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This quick tip shows you how to set custom color or emblem of a folder in Ubuntu 18.04 Nautilus file browser.<\/p>\n<p>For those who want to have a different look and feel on folder icons, <code>folder-color<\/code> extension allows to change the color or emblem of selected folder in the default Nautilus file browser.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install the <code>folder-color<\/code> extension.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install folder-color<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/install-folder-color-600x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/install-folder-color-600x78.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/install-folder-color-450x58.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/install-folder-color.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then re-open Nautilus (Files) file browser, and right-click on a folder. You&#8217;ll be able to choose a color or emblem, or set a custom color of the folder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/folder-color.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/folder-color-600x349.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"349\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/folder-color-600x349.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/folder-color-450x262.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/folder-color-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/folder-color.jpg 997w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that if you don&#8217;t see the context menu &#8220;Folder&#8217;s color&#8221;, quit Nautilus via command <code>nautilus -q<\/code> and open the Files again.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quick tip shows you how to set custom color or emblem of a folder in Ubuntu 18.04 Nautilus file browser. For those who want to have a different look and feel on folder icons, folder-color extension allows to change the color or emblem of selected folder in the default Nautilus file browser. 1. Open [&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":[1534,859],"class_list":["post-7663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-folder-color","tag-nautilus-extension"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663","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=7663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}