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how to change/customize the background color of Documents folder

Asked by Hugh-hfegan

I have recently upgraded to 11.04 cannot find the option to change the colour of the back ground on the documents folder this I did on all other versions of ubuntu, find it very strange now with the white back ground and not being able to change this

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Hugh-hfegan (hugh-hfegan) said : 		#1

The option that in missing is under (Edit>background and Emblems) now can I add this to the edit options

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; echo; apt-cache policy nautilus

Thanks

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Hugh-hfegan (hugh-hfegan) said : 		#3

Hi actionparsnip here is the output of the above command

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
Linux hugh-M61PME-S2 2.6.38-12-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 28 14:25:20 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

nautilus:
  Installed: 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu4.1
  Candidate: 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu4.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu4.1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-proposed/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.2.1-0ubuntu3.2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main i386 Packages
     1:3.2.0-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/restricted i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_oneiric_restricted_binary-i386_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_oneiric_main_binary-i386_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/multiverse i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_oneiric_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_oneiric_universe_binary-i386_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

you may want to run:

sudo fuser -vvv /var/lib/dpkg/lock
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
sudo cp -arf /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/dpkg.backup
sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/available
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/updates/*
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
LANG=C;sudo apt-get clean
LANG=C;sudo apt-get autoclean
LANG=C;sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
LANG=C;sudo apt-get update -o APT::Cache-Limit=25165824
sudo dpkg --clear-avail
sudo dpkg --configure -a
LANG=C;sudo apt-get -f install
LANG=C;sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
LANG=C;sudo apt-get update -o APT::Cache-Limit=25165824 && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

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