Make Nemo Remember Tabs

[MrGrimm]

is there any way to have nemo remember a set of tabs, so when i click to open nemo they are always there or at least click a bookmark to launch those tabs? also i love that compute is flat on the desktop is there a way to pin that to the panel? thanks

[smurphos]

Don't think so - you can make desktop / panel / menu launchers to open Nemo in a specific folder, but not to to open a specific set of folders in tabs or dual-pane view.

The command for the launcher is xdg-open "/path/to/folder".

To add a Computer launcher to the panel you'll need to create a custom panel launcher with the command xdg-open computer:/// - the icon your will need to add is called computer - when you open the icon picker in the create launcher GUI navigate to the devices folder for your current icon theme in /usr/share/icons/

e.g /usr/hare/icons/Mint-Y/devices

To create a desktop launcher. Right click on desktop and choose > Create a new launcher here (it will also offer to create a menu launcher, and from the menu you can easily add it to the panel)

To create a panel launcher directly. Right click on an existing panel launcher > Add

To create a menu launcher. Right click on menu icon in panel > Configure > Menu > Menu Editor > Add.

[MrGrimm]

ok appreciate the info. having nemo open to a specific folder on launch i already know. as for not being able to put the computer on the panel, i know it can be done cause it's just nemo opened to a specific folder, and nemo can be pinned to the panel. which means the code to open to that folder is already in mint. now as for bookmarking tabs nemo creators could take a page from the makers of clover http://en.ejie.me/ . for those with windows also and want to test clover i and many others suggest using only version 3.0.408.0, i'd dare to say have of their users myself included refuse to use any newer versions than that.

[Hoser Rob]

Of course it can be done, it's actually trivial, but open source development staffs aren't exactly under worked.

[MrGrimm]

Of course it can be done, it's actually trivial, but open source development staffs aren't exactly under worked.

want to keep whatever problem you have to yourself, thanks.

[eu2]

Only way I can think of how you could do this would be to use a script, guessing you could do it entirely in bash, but it's already been done in python with bash being used to call the tabs.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... linux-mint
Not tried the above as I find nemo mainly ok as a general file manager, but spacefm does what I want a file manager to do.

[phd21]

HI MrGrimm,

FYI: There are many file managers available in addition to Nemo that you can install and use. There is nothing wrong with having more than one file manager installed.

The new really nice "Polo" file manager can also remember the last session and restore it. It also has options "workspace" options.

1.) polo: Advanced file manager for Linux written in Vala. Supports multiple panes (single, dual, quad) with multiple tabs in each pane. Supports archive creation, extraction and browsing. Support for cloud storage; running and managing KVM images, modifying PDF documents and image files, booting ISO files in KVM, and writing ISO files to USB drives.
https://github.com/teejee2008/polo

2.) Sunflower
http://sunflower-fm.org/


Hope this helps ...

[smurphos]

Only way I can think of how you could do this would be to use a script, guessing you could do it entirely in bash, but it's already been done in python with bash being used to call the tabs.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... linux-mint

That's a nice script...I did wonder at using xdotool to open the tabs, didn't know a method to set what folder opens in each tab. Thanks for sharing.

[MrGrimm]

HI MrGrimm,

FYI: There are many file managers available in addition to Nemo that you can install and use. There is nothing wrong with having more than one file manager installed.

The new really nice "Polo" file manager can also remember the last session and restore it. It also has options "workspace" options.

1.) polo: Advanced file manager for Linux written in Vala. Supports multiple panes (single, dual, quad) with multiple tabs in each pane. Supports archive creation, extraction and browsing. Support for cloud storage; running and managing KVM images, modifying PDF documents and image files, booting ISO files in KVM, and writing ISO files to USB drives.
https://github.com/teejee2008/polo

2.) Sunflower
http://sunflower-fm.org/


Hope this helps ...

polo only opens to full screen, and using more than one file manager waste time.

[MrGrimm]

i'm just posting here and hope most see this post. CUMcast goofed again and i just got back online. i will catch up on thread post tomorrow.

[phd21]

HI MrGrimm,

You are welcome...

[MrGrimm]

Only way I can think of how you could do this would be to use a script, guessing you could do it entirely in bash, but it's already been done in python with bash being used to call the tabs.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... linux-mint
Not tried the above as I find nemo mainly ok as a general file manager, but spacefm does what I want a file manager to do.

yea i watched a vid comparing nemo to 3 other file managers and it did horribly. especially how it handles views. i have to agree.

[MrGrimm]

HI MrGrimm,

FYI: There are many file managers available in addition to Nemo that you can install and use. There is nothing wrong with having more than one file manager installed.

The new really nice "Polo" file manager can also remember the last session and restore it. It also has options "workspace" options.

1.) polo: Advanced file manager for Linux written in Vala. Supports multiple panes (single, dual, quad) with multiple tabs in each pane. Supports archive creation, extraction and browsing. Support for cloud storage; running and managing KVM images, modifying PDF documents and image files, booting ISO files in KVM, and writing ISO files to USB drives.
https://github.com/teejee2008/polo

2.) Sunflower
http://sunflower-fm.org/


Hope this helps ...

hey i like the look and feel of polo, but i open desktop or my shortcut folder and none of the shortcuts are useable, i couldn't be sure if the view settings were per folder or universal since they're only in the menu bar and not no the rightclick context menu in the folders, refuses to open windowed instead of full screen, rightclicking on drives in the navigation pane has on option for open them in a new tab.

[MrGrimm]

Only way I can think of how you could do this would be to use a script, guessing you could do it entirely in bash, but it's already been done in python with bash being used to call the tabs.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... linux-mint
Not tried the above as I find nemo mainly ok as a general file manager, but spacefm does what I want a file manager to do.

thanks for the idea on the script,, as for sapacefm i dislike pcmanfm and spacefm is ranked worst the it.

[eu2]

Only way I can think of how you could do this would be to use a script, guessing you could do it entirely in bash, but it's already been done in python with bash being used to call the tabs.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... linux-mint
Not tried the above as I find nemo mainly ok as a general file manager, but spacefm does what I want a file manager to do.

that's for the idea on the stript, but I'm not writing out a script, as for sapacefm i'm dislike pcmanfm and spacefm is ranked worst the it.

Fair enough, kinda thought the script thing could be pretty interesting, perhaps more in a kiosk/multiple user situation where things are locked down somewhat.
It would do what you required though, if the tabs you wanted to have stayed the same. It could be launched separately from a standard nemo session.

Have you tried spacefm though? Comparing spacefm to pcmanfm would be the same as comparing say tmux to screen..
Regardless best wishes.

[redlined]

hi MrGrimm!

In addition to the other good replies here I'll add Double Commander to the list of options as I prefer it (ex-TC user:) for 'file management' over Nemo, Nautilus and Caja that I've also experienced these past few months. In options you can setup "favorite tabs", including saving current tab(s) and "reloading favorite tabs". Perhaps this will help as a workaround for Nemo issues. You will find it in the respositories using Synaptic Package Manager (SPM) or enter into terminal sudo apt install doublecmd-gtk (ther is a -qt version as well, I do not know the differences between or if one is better than the other, I installed -gtk version as recommended on the easy linux tips page, see #1.5 of 10 essentials!)
Hope this helps!

edit to fix tips project link

[MrGrimm]

i'm assuming Double Commander is double paned, right? i'll take a look. thanks

EDIT:

link broken

[redlined]

i'm assuming Double Commander is double paned, right? i'll take a look. thanks

EDIT:

link broken

hi MrGrimm, yes, it is 'double paned' and sorry about that link, not sure how I messed that up and can't edit post for some reason...

this is what I referred to from linux tips project, Tip #1.5
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... management

[MrGrimm]

no biggy, thanks for reposting.

[MrGrimm]

o.k. wshat did i do wrong?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... 480#490480

"Yes this is very much possible. I use a python script for this task for my caja browser. I am reproducing the script here by replacing caja with nemo. Hopefully, it will directly work with nemo without any further changes.

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
import subprocess
import time
import sys

get = lambda cmd: subprocess.check_output(["/bin/bash", "-c", cmd]).decode("utf-8")
def run(cmd):
    subprocess.call(["/bin/bash", "-c", cmd])

try:
    arg = sys.argv[1]
except:
    arg = ""

try:
    pid = get("pidof nemo").strip()
except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
    run("nemo "+arg)
else:
    w = [l.split() for l in get("wmctrl -lp").splitlines() if pid in l][-1]
    w_id = w[0]   
    if len( [l for l in get("xprop -id "+w_id).splitlines() if all(
        ["_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM)" in l, "_TYPE_NORMAL" in l])]) != 0:
        run("wmctrl -ia "+w[0])
        run("xdotool key Control_L+t")
        if arg != "":
            run("xdotool key Control_L+l")
            time.sleep(0.2)
            run("xdotool type "+arg)
            time.sleep(0.01*len(arg))
            run("xdotool key Return")
    else:
        run("nemo "+arg)

Save this script as nemo-tab.py in your ~/bin directory or any other directory which you have in your path. Make it executable. Then, when you run this script it will open up a new tab in any current running nemo browser or start a new browser if no instance is running. You run it as following:

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nemo-tab.py "~/Documents"

Now, for your case, you can issue the command five times in a bash script to load a nemo instance with 5 initial tabs:

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#!/bin/bash
nemo-tab.py "~/Documents"
nemo-tab.py "~/Desktop"
nemo-tab.py "~/media/data"
nemo-tab.py "~/Videos"
nemo-tab.py "~/Pictures"

Note that you will need to install xdotool and wmctrl:

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sudo apt-get install xdotool wmctrl

Source of Python script: https://askubuntu.com/questions/628084/ ... n-nautilus "

just opened bin as root, created the above nemo-tab.py.,made it executable, installed xdotool and wmctrl, and beyond i'm at a loss. thought rightclicking on bin, open in terminal, and entering nemo-tab.py "/home/mc2635599/Desktop/Shortcuts" would do the trick, but all it did was open a copy of the tab i already had open. once i did the 4th tab i wanted i exited terminal, closed nemo, relaunched nemo and no multiple tabs. help please.