Nemo is a

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and official file manager of the

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desktop environment. It is a fork of GNOME Files (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

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file manager Nautilus v3.4 after the developers of the operating system Linux Mint considered that "Nautilus 3.6 is a catastrophe". Developer Gwendal Le Bihan named the project "nemo" after

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's famous character Captain Nemo, who is the captain of the ''Nautilus''.

Features

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

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*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 GTK 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 SSH into remote servers *Native support for FTP (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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Introducing Nemo
(2012)

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History

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