Theming or changing colors for Nautilus?





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I've got a dark theme for emacs and I use white-on-black for my terminal; to match the color scheme I have going, I'd like to make Nautilus also white-on-black. Is it possible to theme Nautilus or otherwise change the color scheme?



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    I've got a dark theme for emacs and I use white-on-black for my terminal; to match the color scheme I have going, I'd like to make Nautilus also white-on-black. Is it possible to theme Nautilus or otherwise change the color scheme?



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      I've got a dark theme for emacs and I use white-on-black for my terminal; to match the color scheme I have going, I'd like to make Nautilus also white-on-black. Is it possible to theme Nautilus or otherwise change the color scheme?



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      I've got a dark theme for emacs and I use white-on-black for my terminal; to match the color scheme I have going, I'd like to make Nautilus also white-on-black. Is it possible to theme Nautilus or otherwise change the color scheme?



      Thanks!







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          Yes. You can create a custom nautilus.rc (for GTK+ 2.x) or nautilus.css (for GTK+ 3.x).
          Unfortunately I do not have a link or instructions on exactly how to theme it, but there are a few themes out there that have these files inside (such as Ambiance and Radiance), and if you take a look at how their definitions for Nautilus are structured, you should be able to work it out pretty easily.






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            Since nautilus is gtk, it will use the same theme as the rest of the gnome applications, so you can search for a theme than you like.



            The only thing I can think if you don't want to change the gtk theme in the rest of apps, onlyfor nautilus, is create an script than launches nautilus whit a diferent theming:



            For example, I use ultimate edition theme in all my gnome, but I don't like how it looks in firefox, so I made a script called "firefox" and put it inside my $HOME/.scripts directory. The script contains just this:



            #!/bin/bash
            env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/New Wave Dark Menus/gtk-2.0/gtkrc /usr/bin/firefox "$@"


            Now you'll have to make a script called nautilus, and change the word firefox in the script for the route to nautilus executable. And of course change the "New Dark Menus for the name of a theme you like for nautilus and you have installed in /usr/share/themes



            One thing, if the name of the theme contains spaces, you have to put before each space so the script recognize the route.



            Wish it helps



            EDIT:



            I forgot to say. If you want to launch that script manually you'll need only to call it, in the directory where it is like this:
            First you allow it to run (just needed the first time:



            chmod +x nautilus


            Run it:



            ./nautilus


            But if you want to run nautilus with this script by default, you'll need to create a folder where to put your scripts, save it inside and define that folder as your personal script path:



            mkdir .scripts


            Copy the nautilus script inside and give it permisions with



            chmod +x .scripts/nautilus


            Set $HOME/.scripts as a PATH:



            echo "PATH=$HOME/.scripts:$PATH" >> .bash_profile


            This way, every time nautilus is started it will be started for your personal script.






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              You can change the colour of the main panel by opening edit -> backgrounds and emblems and dragging a colour to the main panel






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                My nautlius doesn't even have that in Edit (Ubuntu 14.10)

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              Gnome has a program called Gnome Tweaks to configure Gnome.

              Gnome Tweaks allows, among other things, to change the theme. There is a Advaita-dark theme available by default.

              Please note that this changes the theme of all the OS, not only Nautilus.



              It's possible to install new themes. Here are some examples.






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                Yes. You can create a custom nautilus.rc (for GTK+ 2.x) or nautilus.css (for GTK+ 3.x).
                Unfortunately I do not have a link or instructions on exactly how to theme it, but there are a few themes out there that have these files inside (such as Ambiance and Radiance), and if you take a look at how their definitions for Nautilus are structured, you should be able to work it out pretty easily.






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                  Yes. You can create a custom nautilus.rc (for GTK+ 2.x) or nautilus.css (for GTK+ 3.x).
                  Unfortunately I do not have a link or instructions on exactly how to theme it, but there are a few themes out there that have these files inside (such as Ambiance and Radiance), and if you take a look at how their definitions for Nautilus are structured, you should be able to work it out pretty easily.






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                    Yes. You can create a custom nautilus.rc (for GTK+ 2.x) or nautilus.css (for GTK+ 3.x).
                    Unfortunately I do not have a link or instructions on exactly how to theme it, but there are a few themes out there that have these files inside (such as Ambiance and Radiance), and if you take a look at how their definitions for Nautilus are structured, you should be able to work it out pretty easily.






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                    Yes. You can create a custom nautilus.rc (for GTK+ 2.x) or nautilus.css (for GTK+ 3.x).
                    Unfortunately I do not have a link or instructions on exactly how to theme it, but there are a few themes out there that have these files inside (such as Ambiance and Radiance), and if you take a look at how their definitions for Nautilus are structured, you should be able to work it out pretty easily.







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                        Since nautilus is gtk, it will use the same theme as the rest of the gnome applications, so you can search for a theme than you like.



                        The only thing I can think if you don't want to change the gtk theme in the rest of apps, onlyfor nautilus, is create an script than launches nautilus whit a diferent theming:



                        For example, I use ultimate edition theme in all my gnome, but I don't like how it looks in firefox, so I made a script called "firefox" and put it inside my $HOME/.scripts directory. The script contains just this:



                        #!/bin/bash
                        env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/New Wave Dark Menus/gtk-2.0/gtkrc /usr/bin/firefox "$@"


                        Now you'll have to make a script called nautilus, and change the word firefox in the script for the route to nautilus executable. And of course change the "New Dark Menus for the name of a theme you like for nautilus and you have installed in /usr/share/themes



                        One thing, if the name of the theme contains spaces, you have to put before each space so the script recognize the route.



                        Wish it helps



                        EDIT:



                        I forgot to say. If you want to launch that script manually you'll need only to call it, in the directory where it is like this:
                        First you allow it to run (just needed the first time:



                        chmod +x nautilus


                        Run it:



                        ./nautilus


                        But if you want to run nautilus with this script by default, you'll need to create a folder where to put your scripts, save it inside and define that folder as your personal script path:



                        mkdir .scripts


                        Copy the nautilus script inside and give it permisions with



                        chmod +x .scripts/nautilus


                        Set $HOME/.scripts as a PATH:



                        echo "PATH=$HOME/.scripts:$PATH" >> .bash_profile


                        This way, every time nautilus is started it will be started for your personal script.






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                          Since nautilus is gtk, it will use the same theme as the rest of the gnome applications, so you can search for a theme than you like.



                          The only thing I can think if you don't want to change the gtk theme in the rest of apps, onlyfor nautilus, is create an script than launches nautilus whit a diferent theming:



                          For example, I use ultimate edition theme in all my gnome, but I don't like how it looks in firefox, so I made a script called "firefox" and put it inside my $HOME/.scripts directory. The script contains just this:



                          #!/bin/bash
                          env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/New Wave Dark Menus/gtk-2.0/gtkrc /usr/bin/firefox "$@"


                          Now you'll have to make a script called nautilus, and change the word firefox in the script for the route to nautilus executable. And of course change the "New Dark Menus for the name of a theme you like for nautilus and you have installed in /usr/share/themes



                          One thing, if the name of the theme contains spaces, you have to put before each space so the script recognize the route.



                          Wish it helps



                          EDIT:



                          I forgot to say. If you want to launch that script manually you'll need only to call it, in the directory where it is like this:
                          First you allow it to run (just needed the first time:



                          chmod +x nautilus


                          Run it:



                          ./nautilus


                          But if you want to run nautilus with this script by default, you'll need to create a folder where to put your scripts, save it inside and define that folder as your personal script path:



                          mkdir .scripts


                          Copy the nautilus script inside and give it permisions with



                          chmod +x .scripts/nautilus


                          Set $HOME/.scripts as a PATH:



                          echo "PATH=$HOME/.scripts:$PATH" >> .bash_profile


                          This way, every time nautilus is started it will be started for your personal script.






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                            Since nautilus is gtk, it will use the same theme as the rest of the gnome applications, so you can search for a theme than you like.



                            The only thing I can think if you don't want to change the gtk theme in the rest of apps, onlyfor nautilus, is create an script than launches nautilus whit a diferent theming:



                            For example, I use ultimate edition theme in all my gnome, but I don't like how it looks in firefox, so I made a script called "firefox" and put it inside my $HOME/.scripts directory. The script contains just this:



                            #!/bin/bash
                            env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/New Wave Dark Menus/gtk-2.0/gtkrc /usr/bin/firefox "$@"


                            Now you'll have to make a script called nautilus, and change the word firefox in the script for the route to nautilus executable. And of course change the "New Dark Menus for the name of a theme you like for nautilus and you have installed in /usr/share/themes



                            One thing, if the name of the theme contains spaces, you have to put before each space so the script recognize the route.



                            Wish it helps



                            EDIT:



                            I forgot to say. If you want to launch that script manually you'll need only to call it, in the directory where it is like this:
                            First you allow it to run (just needed the first time:



                            chmod +x nautilus


                            Run it:



                            ./nautilus


                            But if you want to run nautilus with this script by default, you'll need to create a folder where to put your scripts, save it inside and define that folder as your personal script path:



                            mkdir .scripts


                            Copy the nautilus script inside and give it permisions with



                            chmod +x .scripts/nautilus


                            Set $HOME/.scripts as a PATH:



                            echo "PATH=$HOME/.scripts:$PATH" >> .bash_profile


                            This way, every time nautilus is started it will be started for your personal script.






                            share|improve this answer















                            Since nautilus is gtk, it will use the same theme as the rest of the gnome applications, so you can search for a theme than you like.



                            The only thing I can think if you don't want to change the gtk theme in the rest of apps, onlyfor nautilus, is create an script than launches nautilus whit a diferent theming:



                            For example, I use ultimate edition theme in all my gnome, but I don't like how it looks in firefox, so I made a script called "firefox" and put it inside my $HOME/.scripts directory. The script contains just this:



                            #!/bin/bash
                            env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/New Wave Dark Menus/gtk-2.0/gtkrc /usr/bin/firefox "$@"


                            Now you'll have to make a script called nautilus, and change the word firefox in the script for the route to nautilus executable. And of course change the "New Dark Menus for the name of a theme you like for nautilus and you have installed in /usr/share/themes



                            One thing, if the name of the theme contains spaces, you have to put before each space so the script recognize the route.



                            Wish it helps



                            EDIT:



                            I forgot to say. If you want to launch that script manually you'll need only to call it, in the directory where it is like this:
                            First you allow it to run (just needed the first time:



                            chmod +x nautilus


                            Run it:



                            ./nautilus


                            But if you want to run nautilus with this script by default, you'll need to create a folder where to put your scripts, save it inside and define that folder as your personal script path:



                            mkdir .scripts


                            Copy the nautilus script inside and give it permisions with



                            chmod +x .scripts/nautilus


                            Set $HOME/.scripts as a PATH:



                            echo "PATH=$HOME/.scripts:$PATH" >> .bash_profile


                            This way, every time nautilus is started it will be started for your personal script.







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                                You can change the colour of the main panel by opening edit -> backgrounds and emblems and dragging a colour to the main panel






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                                  My nautlius doesn't even have that in Edit (Ubuntu 14.10)

                                  – Jonathan
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                                You can change the colour of the main panel by opening edit -> backgrounds and emblems and dragging a colour to the main panel






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                                  My nautlius doesn't even have that in Edit (Ubuntu 14.10)

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                                You can change the colour of the main panel by opening edit -> backgrounds and emblems and dragging a colour to the main panel






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                                You can change the colour of the main panel by opening edit -> backgrounds and emblems and dragging a colour to the main panel







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                                  My nautlius doesn't even have that in Edit (Ubuntu 14.10)

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                                  My nautlius doesn't even have that in Edit (Ubuntu 14.10)

                                  – Jonathan
                                  Feb 12 '15 at 19:52










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                                My nautlius doesn't even have that in Edit (Ubuntu 14.10)

                                – Jonathan
                                Feb 12 '15 at 19:52







                                My nautlius doesn't even have that in Edit (Ubuntu 14.10)

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                                Gnome has a program called Gnome Tweaks to configure Gnome.

                                Gnome Tweaks allows, among other things, to change the theme. There is a Advaita-dark theme available by default.

                                Please note that this changes the theme of all the OS, not only Nautilus.



                                It's possible to install new themes. Here are some examples.






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                                  Gnome has a program called Gnome Tweaks to configure Gnome.

                                  Gnome Tweaks allows, among other things, to change the theme. There is a Advaita-dark theme available by default.

                                  Please note that this changes the theme of all the OS, not only Nautilus.



                                  It's possible to install new themes. Here are some examples.






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                                    Gnome has a program called Gnome Tweaks to configure Gnome.

                                    Gnome Tweaks allows, among other things, to change the theme. There is a Advaita-dark theme available by default.

                                    Please note that this changes the theme of all the OS, not only Nautilus.



                                    It's possible to install new themes. Here are some examples.






                                    share|improve this answer















                                    Gnome has a program called Gnome Tweaks to configure Gnome.

                                    Gnome Tweaks allows, among other things, to change the theme. There is a Advaita-dark theme available by default.

                                    Please note that this changes the theme of all the OS, not only Nautilus.



                                    It's possible to install new themes. Here are some examples.







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