thegreatyellow67 / papirus-folders

allows to change the color of folders

Papirus Folders

papirus-folders is a bash script that allows changing the color of folders in Papirus icon theme and its forks (which based on version 20171007 and newer).

Table of contents

• Preview
• Installation
  • Ubuntu and derivatives
  • Papirus Installer
  • Third-party packages
• Script usage

Preview

Name	Preview	Name	Preview
black		blue
bluegrey		brown
cyan		green
grey		magenta
orange		red
teal		violet
yellow

NOTE: This project doesn't provide any folder icons. If you want to request a new folder icon or a new color of folder please open an issue here.

NOTE: To change the color of an individual folder you can use Folder Color or Dolphin Folder Color.

Installation

Ubuntu and derivatives

You can install papirus-folders from our official PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:papirus/papirus
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install papirus-folders

or download .deb packages from here.

Papirus Installer

Use the script to install the latest version directly from this repo (independently on your distro):

Install

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-folders/master/install.sh | sh

To install papirus-folders on BSD systems using the following command:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-folders/master/install.sh | env TAG=xBSD PREFIX=/usr/local sh

Uninstall

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-folders/master/install.sh | env uninstall=true sh

Third-party packages

Packages in this section are not part of the official repositories. If you have a problem or a question, please contact the package maintainer.

Distro	Maintainer	Package
Arch Linux	Piotr Górski	papirus-folders-git AUR

NOTE: If you are a maintainer and want to be in the list, please create an issue or make a pull request.

Script usage

Papirus-folders doesn't have a GUI, but it is a fully functional command-line application with TAB-completions. Below you'll see some examples of use.

Show the current color and available colors for Papirus-Dark

papirus-folders -l --theme Papirus-Dark

Change color of folders to brown for Papirus-Dark

papirus-folders -C brown --theme Papirus-Dark

Revert to default color of folders for Papirus-Dark

papirus-folders -D --theme Papirus-Dark

Restore the last used color from a config file

papirus-folders -R

The last command is extremely useful for restoring color after icon theme upgrade (official installers of papirus-icon-theme and some third-party packages do this automatically).