papirus-folders-gui

papirus-folders-gui is a graphical user interface for papirus-folders, this program change the folders color of Papirus

Note: This project doesn't provide any folder icons

Table of contents

• Dependencies
• papirus-folder installation
• Installation
  • Git clone
  • download and compile
  • premaked builds
  • AUR
• Usage
  • Color Change
  • Kill File manager

dependencies

These dependencies correspond to Arch Linux, in other operating systems the dependencies may have another name

• qt5-base

• cmake

• polkit-gnome( one is already included in most desktop environments, but no in most window manager)

• papirus-folders

AUR site for more info: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/papirus-folders-gui/

papirus-folder installation

You can download papirus folder on https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-folders#installation

installation

Git clone

You can install papirus-folders-gui on your system with next steps.

First clone the git

git clone https://github.com/ItzSelenux/papirus-folders-gui

then go to the code folder

cd ./papirus-folders-gui

run the following commands

cmake .

make

Download and compile

you can download the code and compile with next steps

First Download the code as zip and and unzip the zip then open a terminal in the source folder an run make

Premaked build

you can download a premaked build (papirus-folders-gui) and run!

AUR

if you are an Arch Linux (or derived) user, you can install Papirus folders GUI from the AUR, you need an AUR helper just like Paru, Yay, Pamac, Etc

Usage

Color change

Select a color from the list, when you do, a window will appear where you will have to put your Root password, when you have entered the password, restart your file explorer (you can use "Kill File Manager" button), and you will see your folders from the color you selected

Kill File manager

if you want to kill the file manager to see the changes, you can use the "Kill File manager" button actually this file managers was supported:

• Caja (Mate file manager)
• Dolphin (Plasma file manager)
• Nautilus (Gnome file manager)
• Nemo (Cinnamon file manager)
• PCmanFM (Lxde file manager)
• SpaceFM (independent)
• Thunar (Xfce file manager)

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