Replace Nautilus with the new Nemo in Unity

Nemo

When several forks came out of Project Gnome programs years ago, many thought that they would not last long in development and that some would even be failures. But there they are, more alive and stronger than ever, like Nemo.

Nemo is a file manager, more specifically a fork of Nautilus, which has reached version 2.6.5, which is full of new features. One of those novelties and for which it is worth trying is the new plugin manager that has been incorporated and that will allow us to give Nemo the functionalities that we want or need, such as opening a terminal, using dropbox, etc ...

The interesting thing about this file manager is that the Webupd8 team has managed to isolate it from the rest of the Cinnamon software and we can use it in Unity and even use it as a replacement for Nautilus. The process is simple and fast.

Nemo installation

We open a terminal and add the Webupd8 PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/nemo

Now we update the repository

sudo apt-get update

And we install Nemo with the following commands:

sudo apt-get install nemo nemo-fileroller

After this, Nemo will be installed and it will work perfectly as one more system application, but when searching we will have to use "nemo" and not "files" since this corresponds to Nautilus.

How to replace it with Nautilus

We have already installed Nemo and it works perfectly, now we just have to make the pertinent changes so that the system understands that Nemo is and not Nautilus the system file manager. So we open a terminal and:

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

We deactivate Nautilus:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false

And we replace Nautilus with Nemo

xdg-mime default nemo.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search

We restart the system and the changes will be made. Now if we repent, we only need to do the reverse process.

We activate Nautilus:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true

And we replace Nemo with Nautilus

xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search

The choice is yours but of course the test is worth doing, since there are many extensions that significantly improve Nemo and it is not necessary for Cinnamon to be present.

More information - Webupd8


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  1.   manurmu said

    great !!! I'll try it 😀

  2.   viddeveloper said

    Let's try to see how it works.

  3.   jorss said

    useful information 😉

  4.   Omar said

    Thanks a lot! Personally, I like Nemo better than Nautilus because many tools have been removed from the latter (for example, the possibility of dividing the folder by 2 with F3).