Good morning to the whole community,
I am asking if you could kindly help me with a folder color problem.
I followed this guide:
I was able to install in yaru theme and when I am in Home folder I can color the folders in the desktop.
But when I go to the desktop the folders are not colored.
How can I proceed? I think there is a step I am missing.
Thank you in advance for your help.
kind regards,
Can you please take a screenshot to show what you mean?
The theme is installed and you have enabled user themes in gnome extension manager?
Hi, welcome to Zorin OS!
If you're using the context menu you'll have to jump through a few extra hoops. But this will depend on how you installed and what stesp you're actually taking. So, could you please clarify that?
Do you use folder colors or yaru colors?
It sounds as if you are only changing the folder colors in the file manager. Usually a theme is system-wide for your user...
Good morning thank you for your availability,
yes, that's right: you change the colors of the folders in the file manager, but not the ones in the desktop.
The yaru theme is enabled using Zorin appearence.
For ZenZen: I applied all the suggested steps:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pakaoraki/yaru-colors-folder-color sudo apt update sudo apt install yaru-colors-folder-color
sudo apt install folder-color
I thank you both
kind Forpli,
I followed the guide you shared with me.
I entered the yaru folder color change,
then however it suggests to install folder color.
that I should remove folder color and leave only yaru folder color?
I'm not so familar with this. You can also look at this thread.
I read that folder colors and yaru colors should not be used at the same time.
Ah, yes. The problem is simply that folder-colors is an extension to the file manager, Nautilus. But the desktop itself is actually a separate component in Zorin OS. It won't automatically read those changes and follow them. This happens with any theme, even the default one.
To make this change you'll have to go in manually and change the folder icon manually yourself, by right-click on the folder icon → properties → click on the folder icon. The icon set should be available in /usr/share/icons. For example: /usr/share/icons/Yaru-olive/32x32@2x/places/folder-purple.png.
I thank you both.
If I click inside properties of the folder, nothing appears.
How can I make /usr/share/icons appear. ?
Do I use the terminal?
Would there be a way to change the color directly from the desktop folder?
I'm sure you could use the terminal for this, but just like there are some tasks that are easier done with a command or two, some are easier by just pointing and clicking on things:
Here are some step-by-step instructions:
Right-click on the folder icon → Properties.
Click on the folder icon preview (green here right now because I took it again just now, as it wasn't loading properly for some reason):
This will bring up a file picker, where you can navigate the file system to find the icon you wish to use.
In this particular example, given the location of where icons are stored, I prefer to type it out. Press Ctrl+L and this will focus on the "address bar", where you can type the path to the icon you want to use:
And that's about it, it should change the color as expected. A bit annoying maybe, but also not something that I think I'd do very often:
Thank you for your guidance and patience.
Your step-by-step guide was very very helpful to me.
with appreciation,
kind regards,
Sergio
Happy to help! 
