Ubuntu – Color-palette/theme for Ubuntu 18.04

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I have Ubuntu 18.04 installed and I like it, but I'm not a big fan of the aubergine and orange color scheme.

I tried to change it by changing the theme with the gnome-tweak-tool. The Adwaita-dark theme is basically what I'm looking for (dark grays with blue highlights). But it seems to only work on the windows and some menus. The top bar and the dock still have the old "warm gray" colors with orange highlights (e.g. orange dots next to the open applications).

Is there a way to change all the aubergine/warm-gray/orange colors to gray/blue?

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Colour of the top bar and Ubuntu dock (sidebar) is dictated by the GNOME shell theme whereas I reckon you have changed only your GTK+ (application) theme to Adwaita-dark. You need to use a suitable GNOME shell theme too.

I would suggest you to use Adwaita-slim or Minwaita theme (slimmed down versions of Adwaita and both provide shell themes with dark and light variants).

See this for a guidance to change GNOME shell theme: How can I change Gnome Shell theme?

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Ubuntu – How to change folders color

Folder Color works in most distros: Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, openSUSE, Arch Linux, or pretty much anything that has Nautilus, Nemo or the Caja File Browser.I'm not sure it will work with all the themes you've installed but it will with basic ones.

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costales/folder-color
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install folder-color
nautilus -q

Ubuntu – How to tweak/customize GTK theme

There is not standard method for this and it is a lengthy process
You have to make changes in CSS files of theme which can be found it /usr/share/themes/<theme name>/.

Now here look for the colour you want to change, most probably it will be defined at the beginning of CSS file. You might wanna use a colour picker for this Agave is good.

After you found the colour to replace, run the following command

cd /usr/share/themes/<theme name>/
find . -type f | xargs sed -i 's/abc/xyz/g'

in above command replace abc with the colour name you dont want to see, and replce xyz with the colour you would like to see.

It would replace all occurrence of old colour in all files

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