Nautilus vs Nemo

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I'm still very new to Zorin and haven't had time to experience/learn much, such as freezing issues, but it didn't take me long to discover that I don't like Nautilus. Copying large folders to /home from an external HD, I was immediately very annoyed to discover that it didn't give the small progress window as I was used to in Windows. This becomes very significant when some folders I'm copying take hours. While this was happening I decided to see if I could resurrect an ancient desktop, and given it's much lower specs, used Mint. I quickly discovered that it's file manager, Nemo, displayed the little progress windows I wanted.

Zorin's software installer wouldn't install Nemo :slightly_frowning_face: but it installed easily from the terminal. The only minor glitch is that I now have 2 apps called Files with identical icons. My workaround was to unpin Nautilus from the dash and pin Nemo to it.

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You can fix this. The name displayed is given by it's .desktop file.
You can run a terminal command to change its name in one swoop:

sudo sed -i 's/^Name=Files$/Name=Nemo/' /usr/share/applications/nemo.desktop

Or, you can elevate your file manager to root, then navigate to /usr/share/applications
Open the Nemo.desktop file in text editor (Which may show as files.desktop in the folder making a 50-50 chance of opening the right file - just open the Second One you see with Text Editor to get Nemo and inside, the exec line will show it is Nemo File Manager.)
Change the Name from Files to Nemo
Save the file, then close the elevated File Manager and terminal.

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Thanks! But I'll probably wait until I have time to find out how to copy from the desktop and paste to the terminal. Does that also involve getting a different app?

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Right click should offer a context menu in terminal that includes copy and paste.

The keyboard shortcut is ctl+shift+v which also works (for ancient reasons of terminal hardcoding).

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Welcome to the Forum!

Nautilus has a Progress Bar ... well, a Circle ... when copying Files. It is in the bottom left Corner.

But in Common I would agree that Nemo ist a better File Manager.

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I agree, Nemo is really better, nautilus lost most of good options because of Wayland , once again Wayland kill a good software :wink:

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I don't think it is a Wayland Thing. I think it is a Gnome Thing.

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yes a Gnome thing, but Gnome want wayland only for 50, so for Wayland only, Canonical dropped nautilus functions that doesn't work correctly in, it's an easy way, a lazy way...

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What does Canonical drop for Nautilus Functions because of Wayland-only? Never heard about that.

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Nautilus should give you a very small progress pie-chart at the top of the window for large transfers (well it does on Z17.3 Core anyhow).

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all you can find in caja or nemo for example, just remember when they started to push wayland and you will find the split, one way to nautilus, and the other ways for nemo and caja