Nemo (file manager)

Nemo is a free and open-source software and official file manager of the Cinnamon desktop environment. It is a fork of GNOME Files (formerly named Nautilus).

Nemo file manager
Developer(s)Linux Mint
Initial releaseSeptember 2012 (2012-09)
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
PlatformCinnamon
Available inMultilingual
TypeFile manager
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitegithub.com/linuxmint/nemo Edit this on Wikidata
Whether Nemo shows a mount or not, is determined by the option x-gvfs-show for the gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor process.[1] Screenshot of GNOME Disks.

History

Nemo version 1.0.0 was released in July 2012 along with version 1.6 of the Cinnamon,[2] reaching version 1.1.2 in November 2012.[3] It started as a fork of the GNOME file manager Nautilus v3.4[4][5][6] after the developers of the operating system Linux Mint considered that "Nautilus 3.6 is a catastrophe".[7][8][9] Developer Gwendal Le Bihan named the project "nemo" after Jules Verne's famous character Captain Nemo, who is the captain of the Nautilus.[9]

Features

Nemo v1.0.0 had the following features as described by the developers:[9]

  • Uses GVfs and GIO
  • All the features Nautilus 3.4 had and which are missing in Nautilus 3.6 (all desktop icons, compact view, etc.)
  • Open in terminal (integral part of Nemo)
  • Open as root (integral part of Nemo)
  • File operations progress information (when copying or moving files, one can see the percentage and information about the operation on the window title and so also in the window list)
  • Proper GTK bookmarks management
  • Full navigation options (back, forward, up, refresh)
  • Ability to toggle between the path entry and the path breadcrumb widgets
  • Many more configuration options
  • Ability to SSH into remote servers
  • Native support for FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and MTP (Media Transfer Protocol)
  • Setting for reverse sorting order. Toggling this setting might be necessary to show the newest files first in a chronological sort. On older versions, this setting could be missing from the graphical settings user interface, but can be enabled through dconf-editor or the gsettings set org.nemo.preferences default-sort-in-reverse-order true command, and undone using the same command with false.[10]

See also

References
  1. "udisks2/what-is-shown.txt"..
  2. NEMO: THE LINUX MINT TEAM FORKS NAUTILUS, Web UPD8, Aug 2012
  3. "Cinnamon 1.6.7, Nemo 1.1.2". November 14, 2012.
  4. Linux Mint developers work on GNOME file manager fork, Zdnet, Aug 2012
  5. NEMO FILE MANAGER FOR UBUNTU OR LINUX MINT VIA PPA, Technology Linux & Windows, Dec 2012
  6. Linux Mint Team Forks Nautilus, Brings Out Nemo, Muktware, 2012
  7. Linux Mint Explain Nautilus Fork, Call New Version a "Catastrophe", OMG Ubuntu, Sep 2012
  8. Linux Mint founder calls Nautilus 3.6 "a catastrophe", H Online, Sep 2012
  9. "Introducing Nemo". September 4, 2012. Archived from the original on March 13, 2013.
  10. "Arrange items" needs an option (or multiple options) to reverse-sort · Issue #1140 · linuxmint/nemo (comment #522380465 by mtwebster) · GitHub
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