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emmaexe, 1 year ago to privacyguides in Practical file manager on Linux Ubuntu

I second nemo. Gnome makes it annoying to swap file managers since you need nautilus installed for the desktop icons so you can’t just remove it. Nemo has its own but they aren’t as good on gnome.

To swap away from nautilus after installing (any file manager, but in this example) nemo you use xdg-mime:

<span style="color:#323232;">xdg-mime default nemo.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search
</span>

And if you use firefox, you also need to change this file:

<span style="color:#323232;">/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.FileManager1.service
</span>

To point to the new file manager; e.g.:

<span style="color:#323232;">[D-BUS Service]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Name=org.freedesktop.FileManager1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Exec=/usr/bin/nemo --gapplication-service
</span>

By default it is /usr/bin/nautilus or /bin/nautilus.

This is done since firefox does not use xdg to figure out your default file manager (depending on where you got it from YMMV).