Since Zorin Desktop Icons and Nautilus are not working with copy/paste option I am using Nemo Desktop. But whenever I click an icon it becomes focused with white background and white text color. How can I change this behaviour/appearance withouth changing Zorin Dark Grey theme?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Here a video showing my issue
Ctrl + C (copy)
Ctrl + X (cut)
Ctrl + V (paste)
Don't work for you ???
Absolutely not, I wish it worked.
That is weird. Is the hdd/ssd set to read only ?
To be honest I don't know. Anyway whenever I try to CTRL+C/CTRL+V from desktop to Nautilus and from Nautilus to desktop it just does nothing. Nor the copy/paste option works as I described in another thread.
CTRL+X/CTRL+V doesn't work either
Can you open two different folders and copy and paste between each other? Not directly to/from the desktop but rather between two different open folders (one can be desktop but as long as it’s open as a folder).
Yes it would be horrible if I couldn't do that 
copy/paste works perfectly from/to a folder and another in nautilus and it works when desktop folder is opened in Nautilus. It just doesn't work when copying from Nautilus and pasting to desktop or vice versa. I can also drag and drop and it works but copy/paste and ctrl+c/ctrl+v are not working.
Summary:
copy/paste from desktop to Nautilus doesn't work;
copy/paste from Nautilus to desktop doesn't work;
ctrl+c/ctrl+v and ctrl+x/ctrl+v from desktop to Nautilus doesn't work;
ctrl+c/ctrl+v and ctrl+x/ctrl+v from Nautilus to desktop doesn't work;
copy/paste from Nautilus to Nautilus works
drag and drop works everywhere
Seems to be similar to my issue when I replaced Thunar with Nemo as default on XFCE DE.
One solution is posted here: Zorin 16 Lite good for Asus H97m-e? - #7 by Aravisian
but I don’t know if it is what you’re looking for.
PS - the very next post on that thread I linked also has a link to another thread where I had installed Nemo a different way. Not sure if that helps either.
Thank you I'll give it a try asap. But to be clear: when using nemo-desktop (as I am doing now) everything is working fine with copy paste. With nemo-desktop I can copy paste from Nautilus to desktop and vice versa with no problem. This is why I am using it. If only I could fix the focused item white background as explained in the first message of the thread it would be awesome.
Anyway thanks for your help guys and happy holidays 
Update for anyone interested.
I managed to write some CSS and fix the desktop icons without changing zorin grey dark theme. The result is awesome! You can see it here:
If anyone want to reproduce it please just follow these steps:
Open the ~/config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css file (create it if it doesn't exist)
write these lines
.nemo-desktop.nemo-canvas-item {
text-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #000000, 2px 2px 3px #000000;
}
.nemo-desktop.nemo-canvas-item:hover {
text-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #000000, 2px 2px 3px #000000;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2);
}
.nemo-desktop.nemo-canvas-item:selected {
text-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #000000, 2px 2px 3px #000000;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5);
}
pkill nemo-desktop
nemo-desktop
and you're done.
Thanks for your help!
Update 2
I managed to find the Zorin Desktop Icon Extension stylesheet and get some code frome there to have the most similar experience with nemo-desktop.
Now my gtk.css looks like this:
.nemo-desktop.nemo-canvas-item {
text-shadow: 0px 1.5px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.85);
color: white;
font-weight: 600;
padding: 4px;
border-radius: 8px;
}
.nemo-desktop.nemo-canvas-item:hover {
text-shadow: 0px 1.5px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.85);
color: white;
font-weight: 600;
padding: 4px;
border-radius: 8px;
background-color: rgba(238, 238, 238, 0.2);
}
.nemo-desktop.nemo-canvas-item:selected {
text-shadow: 0px 1.5px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.85);
color: white;
font-weight: 600;
padding: 4px;
border-radius: 8px;
background-color: rgba(238, 238, 238, 0.6);
}
.nemo-desktop.view .entry,
.nemo-desktop.view .entry:active,
.nemo-desktop.view .entry:focus,
.nemo-desktop.view .entry:backdrop {
text-shadow: 0px 1.5px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.85);
color: white;
background-color: rgba(238, 238, 238, 0.6);
padding: 4px;
border-radius: 8px;
}
.nemo-desktop.view .entry:selected,
.nemo-desktop.view .entry:focus:selected,
.nemo-desktop.view .entry:backdrop:selected {
text-shadow: 0px 1.5px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.85);
color: white;
font-weight: 600;
padding: 4px;
border-radius: 8px;
background-color: rgba(238, 238, 238, 0.6);
}
Results can be seen here:
Great work Desktop-Not-Working! I am no coder (and never intend to be!)
Thanks! I'm not a coder too but I like to get things working 
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