In Ubuntu desktop file manager, we can change background color by editing and changing the basecolor value from gtk.css file from the location /usr/share/themes/Greybird/gtk-3.0/gtk.css.  Is any option available so that I can set an background image in Ubuntu file manager?
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I want to change the background image in the Nautilus file browser. My idea is to put my own style in the background. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and Nautilus is version 3.  I know that I have to change the nautilus.css file of the theme, but the problem is that there is not a parameter for the background. I just want to apply an image but I can't find the file or parameter to change it.  The CSS file is in the directory /home/UserName/.theme/MyTheme/gtk-3.0/apps. I've changed the nautilus.css file. I wrote two new lines using CSS style but I don't know where the correct place is to put it. The lines are:   background-image: url("carbon.jpg"); background-repeat: repeat;   Obviously I put the image called carbon.jpg in the same directory of nautilus.css, but this change doesn't work because I need to know whichs class displays the Nautilus file browsing frame. If I find this class I guess that this code will work.  If someone knows how to do it, please tell me because I really want to make this change.
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A similar task for changing the desktop background, can be achieved using the following script:   FILE="/backgrounds/background.png" gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "$FILE"   How would I achieve the same result, but with the user's avatar/profile picture?
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Since I upgraded to from 16.04 to 16.10, gedit has strange new "feature": its background is totally transparent.    Where can this come from ?  Notice I'm using Unity and don't have any specific gnome package installed besides what comes by default. Notice also that in 16.04 I used the Vivacious theme from ravefinity PPA, but I had to go back to Ambiance as Vivacious was broken in 16.10. Maybe it's related.  [EDIT] changing the 'Fonts and Colors' in gedit to any theme other than default (Kate, Solarized, Oblivion, etc..) solves the issue. So there must be a faulty gtksourview file in my home somewhare, but I can't find it...
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I am student from Indonesia.  I've installed GNOME 3 from latest PPA and used instructions written by user Jon :    And after that, I removed GNOME 3 and used instructions from above question too. But in GNOME 3, right-click can't do in Desktop (File Manager does not handle desktop) and it's also exists to my old Unity desktop :(  How I can fix it? Thanks so much.    Hmm, still not working :( Thanks for the answer :D  By default in GNOME 3, File Manager does not handle the Desktop, but I using Gnome-Tweak-Tool for fix it... But before I removed GNOME 3, I return the initial setting 'File Manager does not Handle Desktop' And the setting was also influential in Unity :(  Any others??
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Is there a way to give terminal specific background image and make it 50% transparent at the same time?
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I just installed ubuntu gnome 17.04.  I'm trying to install this theme:    It says just extract the theme into the .themes folder and use the tweak tool to select the gtk and shell themes.  So here's what I have:  ole@mkIV:~$ pwd /home/ole ole@mkIV:~$ ls .themes Gnome-OSX-2.6   I then reboot and attempt to find the new themes.  However they do not show up even though I have User Themes turned on under extensions.  Any ideas on how to fix this?
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I am about to ship a new 10.04 installed system to a customer. This is the 1st system that we are shipping with our preinstalled software and an additional hardware test platform, so I thought it would be a nice idea to have the desktop wallpaper include our company's logo.  What I want to do is just to add the logo to the default background image. the questions are:   Where are the set of backgrounds stored? What are the rules for creating a custom background from scratch? If I create a background from scratch, how do I add it to the system's background set (i.e., not just save it in the user's Pictures directory - I want it to be available to all future users of the machine)?
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I've installed the GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 12.04 and I want to change the "Shell Theme", But it doesn't allow me to do that.  The alert says something like: "The GNOME-Shell extension is not activated", and I want to install it with the console, But it returns me an error.  How can I solve this problem?
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How can I allow nautilus to draw desktop icons in 20.04? I made org.gnome.desktop.background.draw background= true but nothing happened. Before I made it done by enabling org.gnome.nautilus.desktop.show desktop to true. But now, even the schema is not available  now. What's wrong with it?  Is I'm only able to make desktop icons with an extension only?
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I have been using the default Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity for some time now and decided to start customizing it.  I have already been able to make some changes with the gnome-tweak-tool. However, there are many themes that I get from gnome-look.org that don't appear in the gnome-tweak-tool even after putting them in the /usr/share/themes folder.  Any idea why this is happening? Thanks.
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Example:      My question is simple.  What are the different colors representing in the unity launcher background for each icon.  I mean, it seems consistent (firefox is always orange), but it's not jumping out at me what the pattern is.  On my screen, it's:   Firefox: Orange Chrome: Yellow Terminal: Grey RDP App: Blue KeyPassX: Green NetBeans: Blue   I'd like to turn it off if possible, but first I'd like to understand more about it.  Any launcher experts?
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I have just started to customize my Ubuntu a little bit and found the Arc-Dark theme to be exactly what I am looking for. There are some small things though. The color of the calendar on top is still white, and the font of the notifications and inside the calendar are off. This is what it looks like right now:  I would like to see the calendar being the same darker color, and maybe having the day numbers font in white. Also the font color of the search bar is off. There is text, but it is just as dark as the background.  It's only visible when you hover over the search bar.  How would I go about changing/tweaking these things? Or did I do something wrong during the installation? Edit: UnKNOWn has answered my question (accepted answer). The css-file was, in my instance, found at /usr/share/themes/Arc-Dark/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.css. I made the small changes to .calendar and .search-entry, saved the file (with sudo rights) and reloaded the theme by simply re-applying it with Gnome-Tweaks!
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I've installed the latest 17.10 Ubuntu and then used   sudo apt install gnome-session   to get rid of Ubuntu's modifications, as described .  Although I prefer to have a vanilla GNOME experience, Ubuntu's  is very appealing. Unfortunately, I can't find this theme in GNOME Tweaks. The only GNOME-Shell theme that is present there is GNOME's default one.  Does somebody know a convenient way to install Ubuntu's new GNOME-Shell theme?
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In Windows 7 and Windows XP it was very easy to change the default background color of all windows to whatever you want. Staring at white window backgrounds all day is hard on the eyes. Once changed, ALL windows of all apps would conform to the custom color as long as the apps allowed the windows bg to be invoked. So for example it worked great in Notepad and many other apps.   Then the geniuses at M$ decided that this feature was no longer needed in Windows 8, and removed it. There were some reg hacks, but nothing standard. I remember reading that the feature would be coming back in Windows 10, but I'm not finding this to be the case. The only [partial/broken] way I have found to be able to do this is to tweak the following registry keys:  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors] "Window"="227 221 191"  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Colors] "Window"="227 221 191"   When I changed those keys to my chosen soothing color and rebooted, it worked ONE TIME. After every reboot thereafter, all the white backgrounds are back AND YET those registry keys still have my custom RGB codes. I really hate Microsoft right now, but that aside, is there any solid way to change windows 10 bg colors and make it stick?  Important: In Settings -> Personalization -> Colors, none of that changes windows backgrounds. Already tried.   I am using Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1511 Build 10586.3.  UPDATE: I rebooted again and the bg colors work correctly...but later in the day all the window bgcolors were back to white again. Windows 8.1 had the exact same bug. My conclusion is that the reg hack "works" but only intermittently. Is this simply a MS bug? Or is there a better answer/solution?
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How can I change the background color only for the current page? I found that I can change the color with \pagecolor{color} but that unfortunately changes the color for all pages after this command. Any ideas how to limit this command only to the current page?
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I am setting up Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome3 for a computer lab.  I don't want the users to be able to change the background of the computer.  Is there a way to prevent this? Or to revert the background back when the computer reboots?
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I have an image where the background is white and there are various important components that are also white. I want to just change the background to alpha, but "Colors to Alpha" - by default - changes all the white to alpha.  Please help and thank you!