HOWTO: Launch Nemo when apps ask for Nautilus

[CaluVerde]

The default file browser in Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon is Nautilus, whereas the default in Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon is Nemo. Enabling backports in Mint 13 allows one to acquire Nemo in Mint 13. While both file browser can coexist in harmony, some might prefer to own and use only one. Some apps which can launch a file browser externally are configured to make use of Nautilus. To use Nemo instead, a very simple (and probably dirty) workaround is to make a symbolic link:

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sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nemo /usr/local/bin/nautilus

This workaround is however only needed under the premise that:

- you are using Mint 13 and not 14
- configuring an app to use nemo instead of nautilus is not a straightforward task
- you consider it to be a burden to manually configure each app that can launch an external file browser

[TRZALICA]

You can make NEMO as default file manager in this way (when you have Linux Mint 13 installed and you have both Nemo & Nautilus):
1.) You can run this command in Terminal to show the default app for folder:

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xdg-mime query default inode/directory

By default, the output of the command in Linux Mint 13 should be nautilus.desktop.

2.) When you have Nemo installed on your system and want to set Nemo as the default file manager, run this command in Terminal:

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

3.) Now, you can check if NEMO is default file manager:

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xdg-mime query default inode/directory

Now it writes that NEMO is default file manager

4.) To test the result, run this command:

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xdg-open $HOME

That command should launch Nemo showing your home directory.

5.) If you want to stop Nautilus from handling the desktop and want to set Nemo instead, you can do the following (in Linux Mint 13, Nautilus is set to handle desktop by default (to manage desktop icons, menu, etc), and if you have Nemo installed, there will be a conflict, both will be automatically loaded every time you logging in, to take control of the desktop):

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

6.) Make sure Nemo is set to handle desktop:

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gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons true

That's it!

P.S. If you want that NEMO work when you press icon on panel just replace application name from nautilus %U to nemo %U.

[luisf]

Hello TRZALICA.

Thank you for your response. I spent the whole afternoon and night I only just managed to solve the problem. I'm using Linux Mint 16 - Petra. Thank you!