Different File Managers

Sure ! I first tried with Nautilus in Unity :grin: Works fine !
But anyway, what file manager could be better than Caja in Mate Desktop ?
Have you experienced this ?
I have friend who even use Dolphin (great one !) in XFCE - But i never liked to mix up different DE and File Manager. However i used Kdenlive Krita and some others great kde's natives softwares - Which means anyway - i do mix dependencies ... woks fine ... But manage Desktop ...

IMO there are many good FMā€™s. PCmanFM impresses me for its speed, MidnightCommander for a no fuss get the job done. I use Nemo just because I have used it for years, its what Nautilus use to be :slight_smile:

I'll say Caja also looks like old Nautilus ...
May i ask how did you installed Nemo in UM ? Without Cinnamon Dependencies ? :relieved:

I install right out of our repositories, could be installed without recommended packages. I don't care or see a problem with a few extra recommends. Not much coming from cinnamon, just one package.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/nemo

Too bad that in Caja, on a mouse with 5 buttons, the back/forward buttons donā€™t work. It would be nice if they would fix this bug.

The thing is not a bug it is not supported . But in Mate 1.18 it is . See http://mate-desktop.org/blog/2017-03-13-mate-1-18-released/

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It is a bug because it works only when the view is set to ā€˜Iconā€™, with ā€˜Listā€™ view the buttons donā€™t work. But itā€™s nice to know that it will be functional in the latest Mate.

Thanks ! I have tried once with unity ā€¦

So then you are able to handle desktop without missing anything?

Desktop is fine, both caja and nemo is working well :slight_smile:

@anon42388993, re Nemo vs Nautilus: does Nemo let you configure what is shown in the sidebar?

Aside from the continuing dumb-down progression in Nautilus/Caja, with icons for this and icons for that, the biggest annoyance i find with Nautilus/Caja is that there seems no control over what is shown in the sidebar.

The whole ā€œcomputerā€ section which lists desktop, downloads, pictures, moviesā€¦ that is just useless and shifts the bookmarks section down for no real value imo.

Yes it will.

Cool, will it stull run scripts like nautilus/caja? I can install it to find out, but it doesnā€™t hurt to ask, i hope.

Did somebody fork nautilus and keep developing it without the prettyup-dumbdown? That would be Most Cool. Itā€™s pretty clear thatā€™s what happened with the old gnome-panel, if i havenā€™t been daydreaming again. thx.

I think its time to put you in better hands. Our resident Nemo answer provider @tiox :slight_smile:

He has several threads on the subject.

https://ubuntu-mate.community/search?q=nemo

Check it out and let us know.

Okay, you wanted to knowā€¦ i clicked your search and looked at the thread titles, and within a few seconds decided that iā€™ll just stick with nautilus/caja for now. Thatā€™s not intended to deprecate this or that, but what i have works and iā€™ll be rolling a different one altogether as soon as i get enough of a codebase portedā€¦ one thing i donā€™t need is more issues to deal with, and it looks like i better just forget about more/better linux apps and write more code using what i have. :wink:

Thanks for your patience, sorry for trying it.

Not true. Your not trying my patience.

Tiox gets into the nuts and bolts of it. I do not. Caja is fully installed as default on my system and Nemo has a launcher in my panel. My system settings remain at default for Caja and this works fine for me. I do not need Nemo in control of my desktop. Most others would prefer that Nemo control the desktop, I simply first launch Nemo.

So anyhow, thats why I go to tiox on this :slight_smile:

Later :wave:

ā€¦My God. I sure did write quite a bit about Nemo, alone.

Welp, whatever @crankypuss needs help with he can always directly refer to me, if my articles were not sufficient enough.

@anon42388993 Itā€™s not that I am ā€œThe Nemo expertā€, though I sort of became that when figuring out for days on end how everything was broken. I just like how it looks and functions, and it works well enough as a drop-in replacement. That, and itā€™s more familiar to users of Linux Mint Cinnamon.

Thanks guys. Iā€™m just trying to get some stuff done here, and nautilus/caja is letting me do it. Nemo might or might not end up saving me time, but itā€™s time to crank code instead of tweaking the platform, the platform already meets min-spec but my code does not, on accounta not having been written yet. :slight_smile:

And its all good stuff :slight_smile: Thanks for the reply.