Switching from Budgie Desktop View to Nemo Desktop

brent

Solarmass Should be built-in into Nemo imo.

compared to Nautilus, this is small potatoes and would not have driven me to Solus Mate! I'm getting an education on how Nemo works and its little quirks. I liked it in Ubuntu Budgie before I got rid of it. Thank you Solarmass for highlighting the difference in file managers.

Wyrdsmyth

I very much appreciate this how-to. I'm not sure what brand of meth the Gnome dev team prefers but they've been regularly breaking UI since they started working on Gnome 3 and it hasn't gotten much better since then.

Thanks for helping me get my Solus environment working again - the lack of drag-and-drop support and weird copy/paste issues was really starting to grate on my nerves.

lexus

I tried this but now I cant login anymore. Then I tried to install budgie via terminal again but there is the issue "failed to fetch file". Anyone any idea without reinstall the hole system?

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.

WetGeek

algent nemo became automatically default package manager.

I believe you might have misspelled "file manager."

I think I might have done something wrong along the way, or perhaps missed a step. I have nemo as "Files," and Budgie Desktop Settings isn't itself anymore, but when I tried placing desktop icons anywhere on the right, they immediately sprang back to their customary Budgie position as soon as the mouse let go.

algent

WetGeek I believe you might have misspelled "file manager."

Yes, I misspelled it 😅 . Thanks. Edited now.

Wini-Buh

WetGeek With the mouse right click anywhere on the empty desktop and on the popup menu select customize (or something similar... i use different language than English, so I don't how the menu entry is translated). A customization dialog window will open, and on it disable automatic placing of the icons.

WetGeek

Wini-Buh A customization dialog window will open, and on it disable automatic placing of the icons.

That's what I missed somehow. Now my Budgie VM is acting just a little more like my Plasma VM. Scaling still seems to be just 100% or 200%, though.

Wini-Buh

WetGeek Raster setting is customized with the horizontal (found on the bottom of the dialog) and the vertical (found on right side of the dialog) slide controls.
To customize the font setting I did it in the dconf editor (or in a terminal with gsettings) under the key org.nemo.desktop.font .

WetGeek

Wini-Buh Raster setting is customized with the horizontal (found on the bottom of the dialog) and the vertical (found on right side of the dialog) slide controls.

You mean, the horizontal and vertical grid spacing? I changed both of those to their mid-point settings, and could perceive no change anywhere. Perhaps I'm still doing something wrong? Maybe a reboot needed?

EDIT: Ahhh, I found out what "grid spacing" means. It has to do with how closely the desktop icons are spaced from each other. Nothing to do with screen resolution. I'm learning a lot. Thanks for your help.

shipoopy

It didn't work. I did the switch as described but it wouldn't let me log in to Budgie after rebooting. Logging in with ctrl+f5 and removing nemo from ttk eopkg fixes it.
I do not think this switch was thought through very well or the most ideal solution to begin with I'm sorry but this is a disaster.

EbonJaeger

Ahem So, back to Nemo....

shipoopy It would be helpful to see journal logs to see what went wrong in this case.

Staudey

FYI: I deleted a number of posts that were entirely unrelated to the topic. Please try to keep the discussion limited to things that relate to Nemo / desktop icons / the switch from budgie-desktop-view. (also don't respond to this message)

Solarmass

Back to ontopic! Nothing to report so far, it's just nice that you can make a temp file on the desktop 🙂

olivir

Nemo has so much functionalities I discover and appreciate (easy to change folder icons, emblems, mouse shortcuts, per folder config, pin folder, etc.), thank you to all the team for this migration ! 🙏

penny-farthing

Hi, nice performance with this installation of Nemo in Solus and congratulations to the developers involved.
I would like to point out a problem in changing the default settings of the icon view in the Preferences menu.
Indeed, when the default zoom level (100%) is changed to 150%, everything is fine, this change is effectively reflected in all other folders.
But when you then go from 150% to 200%, this is no longer the case : some folders follow, others do not.
And when you want to go back, it's the same thing.
All that remains is to adjust the zoom level per folder using the button at the bottom right of the file manager (we don't have this problem with Nautilus).
On the other hand, I did not find how to sort, in Nemo, the folders by type, by date of last modification... (like in Nautilus).
Thank you in advance for your help.
Best regards.

EbonJaeger

penny-farthing On the other hand, I did not find how to sort, in Nemo, the folders by type, by date of last modification... (like in Nautilus).

Assuming the default icon view, right click in empty space, and look for "Arrange Items...". In list view, you can just click on the headers.

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penny-farthing Do you mean the actual folder icons have mismatching sizes or are there something like generated thumbnails in the mix?

penny-farthing

OK, that works now for the tip about sorting folders, thanks.
And about the problem with managing the default settings for the icon view in the Preferences menu, what do you think ?

EbonJaeger

penny-farthing I would guess this is because by default, Nemo does view preferences per folder. So if you've already opened a folder at one zoom level, that gets saved, and it keeps using that. You can try to enable this option in the Behavior tab in Preferences, but it still seems weird sometimes:

penny-farthing

[deleted] When I went from 150% to 200%, "Personal Folders" stay in 150%, "Documents" changed to 200%, "Music" stay in 150%, "Pictures" changed to 200% (and "Videos" too (it seems to remind me)).
When I came back from 200% to 150%, it had no effect.
So I recreated my account user and I configured at 150% the parameter of icon view.
It's just after I noticed the button to adjust the zoom level per folder.
Hoping I have been more clear,
Regards.

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