Some people think of Nemo as a submarine captain, others
as a ridiculously cute clown sh that’s lost, while every
Linux Mint user knows that it’s actually a le manager.
Nemo 2.6 was released recently together with the whole
Cinnamon 2.6 desktop environment; however, it can also
be used as a standalone le manager in any desktop of
virtually any distro.
Nemo history starts in 2012 when developers behind
Linux Mint forked the Nautilus 3.6 le manager in order to
save it from a Gnome’s attempts at simplifying everything.
Since then, Nemo has become recognised as a GTK3-based
le manager that supports desktop icons mode, compact
view, full navigation options and lots of great con guration
options — a lot more than can be found in Nautilus.
The most notable feature of Nemo 2.6 is a plug-in
manager, which allows the enabling and disabling of Nemo
actions, extensions and scripts with a few clicks. The plug-in
manager is available as the Plugins entry in the Nemo’s
menu. Once the manager is launched, it shows the list of
available actions, extensions and scripts with a checkbox
in front of each.
Linux Mint also runs a separate project (github.com/
linuxmint/nemo-extensions) to port the available Nautilus
extensions to Nemo, such as le name repairer, image
converter, sharing extensions and some others. Besides
new plug-ins, Nemo enables bookmark sorting, toggling
of the location bar to a path-bar and putting le operations
in a queue (this is the default behaviour in 2.6). Thanks to
this, the le manager combines the simplicity and elegance
of Gnome-styled applications with a feature set very close
to Dolphin.
The Nemo le manager comes with Linux Mint by
default, but there’s also a separate PPA for Ubuntu where
you can install Nemo without Cinnamon dependencies
(ppa:webupd8team/nemo). Outside of that the availability
of Nemo is quite limited: it’s o ered for Fedora, OpenSUSE
and Arch/Manjaro, while you’ll nd that the lesser-known
distros are left out in the cold.
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