[Solved] GNOME's Nautilus took over default functions from Nemo

[DaveJones]

Hi all,

I run latest LM18.1 with everything updated. I also have a bunch of GNOME applications and I guess one of them installed GNOME's Nautilus FM a while back. One thing that annoys me a lot is that Nautilus is sometimes opened instead of Nemo.

For example, if I click on the Trash applet in the panel, Nautilus is opened and not Nemo. If I open a file path from the command line with xdg-open, Nautilus is again opened and not Nemo.

I did a ton of research on this before I made this post and I was not able to figure out how to set Nemo so it's default for everything file-related again. I thought that some of the MIME settings were wrong but after doing some digging and checking the mimeinfo.cache manually, nemo's set before Nautilus on everything. Even when I query from the command line, nemo seems to be the prefered FM to handle things. For example:

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$ xdg-mime query default inode/directory
nemo.desktop
 

But if I do "gio open .", it will open it in Nautilus.

Is anyone familiar how GNOME works and how to change preferences for file management? How could I regain control again?

[Cosmo.]

I guess one of them installed GNOME's Nautilus FM a while back.

You should watch, what you are doing.

Try this:
Open the file ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list in your text editor and add those lines:

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inode/directory=nemo.desktop
x-directory/normal=nemo.desktop

Reboot.
Good luck. (No promise because out of obvious reasons not tested.)

[DaveJones]

Thank you!!! That solved it!