Nemo is a free and open-source software and official

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of the Cinnamon desktop environment. It is a fork of

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(formerly named Nautilus).

History

Nemo version 1.0.0 was released in July 2012 along with version 1.6 of the Cinnamon, reaching version 1.1.2 in November 2012. It started as a fork of the GNOME file manager

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v3.4 after the developers of the operating system

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considered that "Nautilus 3.6 is a catastrophe". Developer Gwendal Le Bihan named the project "nemo" after Jules Verne's famous character

Captain Nemo Captain Nemo (; later identified as an Indian, Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's science-fiction classics, ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' ...

, who is the captain of the ''Nautilus''.

Features

Nemo v1.0.0 had the following features as described by the developers: *Uses

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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

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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

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into remote servers *Native support for

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(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."Arrange items" needs an option (or multiple options) to reverse-sort · Issue #1140 · linuxmint/nemo (comment #522380465 by mtwebster) · GitHub
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References

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Introducing Nemo
(2012)

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