You’re probably already familiar with Folder Color, a terrifically nifty tool that makes it easy to change the colour of folder icons in Nautilus.
Well, I’ve some good news: it recently added support for Ubuntu 22.10 and GNOME 43. This means you can continue to change the colour of any folder in Nautilus (as well as badge folders with a selection of emblems) to suit your own tastes.
If you’ve used the tool in earlier versions of Ubuntu/Nautilus then nothing has changed: right-click on any folder in the file manager and page into the ‘folder color’ menu to pick a hue from the list available. The change applies instantly.
Don’t use Nautilus? You needn’t miss out; this tool is also available for the Caja file manager used in Ubuntu MATE. It works in the exact same way, and supports the same colour choices and folder emblems.
Installing Folder Color on Ubuntu 22.10
First, add the official Folder Color PPA — yes, a PPA; a rarity these days — to your Kinetic Kudu-based system buy running this command in a terminal app of your choosing:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costales/folder-color
Then run this command to install Folder Color on Ubuntu 22.10, and restart the Nautilus file manager to make sure all of the new folder colour features click in to place, as intended:
sudo apt install folder-color && nautilus -q
If you upgraded from an earlier version of Ubuntu and the tool already installed: uninstall it first, then add the PPA, and then reinstall it.
To install the Caja version run sudo apt install folder-color-caja, and restart.
In all, nice tool — great to see it updated!
Thanks Adam!