Changing the background color of the File-Manager

colors background color-management

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You can install a "dark" GTK theme. Many popular ones are Numix, Delorean Dark, Ambience Dark, etc.

My personal favorite is delorean dark and here are instructions for installing that theme:

mkdir ~/.themes
cd ~/.themes
wget http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/344/0/4/delorean_dark_theme_3_6_g__vs_2_56_by_killhellokitty-d5nnoxt.zip
unzip delorean_dark_theme_3_6_g__vs_2_56_by_killhellokitty-d5nnoxt.zip

You will need a tweak tool such as unity-tweak-tool and or gnome-tweak-tool to apply the theme.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool gnome-tweak-tool

See my similar answer here.

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Sonu Mishra

I received my B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the IIT Guwahati in July 2014, and received the Institute Silver Medal -- awarded to the best academic performer in class. Broadly, my interest lies in communication networks, wireless communications, multimedia security, error control codes and machine learning. In the summer of 2012, I was a research intern at IISc Bangalore where I worked on relay load balancing in cooperative wireless systems. In the summer of 2013, I was a visiting scholar at National University of Singapore where my work was based on MAC protocols for cognitive radio networks. Since June 2014, I am a consultant with EXL Analytics. My work primarily involves providing data-driven decision analytics to a fortune 50 client in its Small and Mid-Market business. From Fall 2015, I will be attending University of California Los Angeles for M.S. in Computer Science.

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Sonu Mishra over 1 year

I have Ubuntu 14.04. The background color of the File-Manager. White is too tiring for my eyes. Is there any way I can change this to something dark, maybe gray or black?
- mchid almost 8 years
  
  This is not a duplicate of that answer.
- guntbert almost 8 years
  
  Are you talking about the file manager or about a command line?
- Sonu Mishra almost 8 years
  
  I am talking about file manager. Changing the background color of terminal is trivial.
- Mohamed Slama almost 8 years
  
  @mchid i think it's duplicated here !! askubuntu.com/questions/465908/…