Remove black line from (15.04 - Vivid) Files/Nautilus sidebar

Question

Is there a way to remove the black line from the sidebar of the latest Ubuntu? It sticks out and always causes me to lose focus when I'm working, because it stands out way too much compared to the rest of the area.

Answer 1

To achieve this we will edit nautilus.css.

We will do this for the current user and not system-wide.

Copying your theme to your home folder

Open a terminal:

mkdir ~/.themes/
cp -R /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/ ~/.themes/

(if you are not using the Ambiance theme (default), you will need to adapt the last command)

Editing nautilus.css

In a terminal open nautilus.css:

gedit ~/.themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/apps/nautilus.css

Add the following lines to the end of the file:

NautilusWindow .sidebar .separator,
NautilusWindow .sidebar .view .separator {
   color: shade (@bg_color, 0.95); 
}

Save the file.

Log out and in again (or enter nautilus -q command in Terminal to restart Nautilus) and you are done.

Result