Switching from Budgie Desktop View to Nemo Desktop

Noviterm

Happy New Nemo Era.

AlucardNoir2

See, this would have never happened if Josh was still with the project. Good to hear Nemo finally made it's way to Solus. Happy new year and can't wait for the next update - I'm lazy and don't want to go though all the steps myself.

seanragout

Just out of interest how many people do you think will be picking up Nemo pre 4.4 ISO?

craigtoyoracer

Why if my system is up to date , can I not install Nemo "no results" ?

[deleted]

craigtoyoracer probably not synced yet

EbonJaeger

craigtoyoracer @[deleted] is correct, there hasn't been a sync to Stable yet. Some stack rebuilds took longer than expected. Sorry for the delay.

craigtoyoracer

[deleted] well that makes sense. 😃

craigtoyoracer

EbonJaeger no rush and thank you.

ender

I'm out of the loop, what is Nemo Desktop and what does it provide that Budgie Desktop View doesn't?

[deleted]

ender Free sorting of desktop icons, for example.

algent

ender I provides desktop icons like the old nautilus before budgie-desktop-view.
You can move icons around ecc.

WetGeek

algent You can move icons around ecc.

So, it's like Plasma. Good move!

brent

WetGeek makes it more like flagship budgie, first edition (2018)

[deleted]

WetGeek It's like GNOME 3 before scrapping desktop icons

seanragout

🤣 It works....perfectly!
Well, almost. Maybe I'm overlooking something when you click on plug-ins under actions there are various checkboxes, all good one is 'set as wallpaper' which is checked but when i click on a wallpaper/image the option doesn't appear. Am i missing something?
Small thing and other than that I'm really happy, everything else works, got back my preferred icon size, the works
Thank you devs for all your work.

Neumie

I think it worked for me but just want to double check (Running Solus Budgie).

I updated my system first then restarted. Then I followed the instructions in the first post, logged out then logged back in. All seems well but Gnome Files still seems to be the default file manager. Is this expected?

Also when I open something from the desktop (e.g. my home folder) it doesn't seem to be Gnome Files that is used to display the contents. Is this an issue or expected.

Also also: is there a way to set it so that i have to double click to open something from the desktop? My googlefu failed me 😅 .

algent

Neumie All seems well but Gnome Files still seems to be the default file manager. Is this expected?

Yes, it is expected. You can change default file manager by right clicking on a folder and find "Open with ..." (I am writing from phone, it should be there something similar to this), there try to find Nemo.

algent

Neumie Also also: is there a way to set it so that i have to double click to open something from the desktop? My googlefu failed me 😅 .

Also this is in Nemo preferences, by changing behaviour from single click to double click.

[deleted]

algent Would removing Files and installing Nemo achieve the same effect?

algent

[deleted] I don't know. I didn't try it that way.

algent

[deleted] Just tried this in VirtualBox. Removed nautilus and installed nemo. nemo became automatically default file manager. But still you need to manually pin it to panel, and remove Files (nautilus) from there. Also autostart for desktop icons should be done manually at the moment.