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You should open a new bug report on the Nemo issue tracker instead of posting a cropped screenshot here:
https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo
Btw, I had a quick look and it seems that this feature was just implemented two months ago:
https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/pull/1625
The GNOME folks aren't too into desktop icons anymore, but Nautilus not being able to display them on Wayland is a bug that has already been fixed in nautilus-3.22.2, which should be available soon: http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/nautilus-3-22-2-file-manager-makes-desktop-icons-work-on-wayland-sessions-510881.shtml
I experienced the same problem with Nemo but shamefully didn't file a bug. There is already one to simply not show the icons: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/1343
Please file a bug to request that desktop icon support in Nemo with Wayland.
I expect that desktop icons are going to be increasingly badly-supported in GNOME + Wayland going forward.
edit: Screenshot!
I use Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu, I believe).
I haven't had any issues with running AS on it.
The emulator runs better than on Windows. Uses less CPU.
Haven't noticed a build time difference, but I haven't looked. I'd love to see some benchmarks on this. Windows services like Windows Defender or Everything (third-party but recommended) will slow down your build times if you don't tell them to exclude your build folders.
I greatly prefer programming on Linux, really.
The terminal is better overall. I have a plugin that embeds a terminal right into your file browser, so if you need the terminal, it's right there and scoped to your working directory already, super useful for git commands.
The OS seems lighter, you don't have hungry services like Defender running in the background and eating all of your CPU whenever you step away for 10 seconds or run a build.
No need to restart to update the OS, which is awesome if you're a Windows Insider and are used to Microsoft literally reinstalling the whole OS for their patches.
Linux has its quirks, of course. No denying that. Nvidia and Bluetooth drivers continue to plague me with screen tearing and eternal connectivity issues, respectively. But for some reason I still always boot back to Linux at the end of the day instead of Win10.
edit: Link to said terminal plugin for Nemo (Mint's file browser): https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo-extensions/tree/master/nemo-terminal
That's pretty easy thing to do, all you need is to grab, for example, Nemo source and plug your algorithm here
Now creating that algorithm is going to be fun part :) How should this be sorted: 1 III X 2 II K J? How about January February Marec? Březen Únor Máj^1? What if I make typo, should Decbmer break sorting completely, or only partially? Or how about April, May and Alice?
I really doubt this you could make this universal :(
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^1 Last of those is commonly used, bud from wrong language.
I don't have a solution for you, but you should check this bug report and if it's the same thing you're experiencing, let them know there.
I personally don't ever jump on point updates immediately. I give them around a month or more to work out the kinks. Just my two cents.
https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/blob/master/INSTALL
Fair warning though, I think nemo is integrated pretty tightly into the Cinnamon desktop. If they are holding back an update from the current stable desktop there may be a good reason for that. So if you manually compile & install the latest version it is (1) bound to be very unstable and (2) may not behave correctly in your current desktop environment.
This has been an issue from the beginning. They are aware of it, I just don't think they know how to fix it. This was my only pet peeve with LM when I started using it. Still is, but I just got used to disappointment. Btw, the term for this feature is lasso.
Yeah. A look into https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/tree/master/src makes it obviously clear how most code has not been touched at all in years. The same is true for https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/tree/master/src – that's not how healthy software projects look like.
Gnome 3 Classic (or using 3rd party extensions) can achieve similar results to Cinnamon while at the same time be technologically more advanced (working Wayland support being the most obvious example).
Use ctrl+tab to switch tabs, but to my knowledge keyboard shortcuts are lacking for features like the extra pane. If you have some programming experience you could always submit a pull request at nemo github
LM is friendly and familiar to people coming from Windows (which is “everyone”). Asking for feature parity should not be a bad thing. Sometimes there is a good reason that Linux deviates from Windows. Sometimes there’s not a good reason. There are many distros that are far less Windows-y, but seeing as this is a Mint sub, there will be a lot of people who are used to the workflow on Windows, and it’s ok for them to make posts and give their opinion. Also, you’re talking about “throw out the power of the CLI”? What are you even talking about; the guy’s just asking for another menu option to be added. And really, you suggest that he forks the code? That’s so unhelpful and passive aggressive. Your comments have no value. OP, if you want to make a feature request, you can do so here https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/
Run from a terminal (the first command exits nemo, the second starts a new instance)
nemo -q nemo
Reproduce the crash and check the output for errors. Your issue may already be reported here: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues
That sounds like it's a bug. You can report it on github:
https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues
See also this troubleshooting guide on how to report bugs:
https://linuxmint-troubleshooting-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Nemo - the file manager on the 'Cinnamon' flavour of Linux Mint - has some serious, embarassing problems with network drives. I do wish the Mint team would try harder to fix them. I thought there was a bug report open for the problem but now that I check I can find similar ones (this one and this one) but not an exact match of your problem. I urge you to file a new bug report, referencing those other too problems. (But in the report please do ensure that you are polite and use non-emotive language.)
It is possible that the hang is not Nemo's fault (but rather a problem in some lower part of the operating system - a part not written by the Mint team) but at the least Nemo should fail more gracefully. Here we have one of the problems that has made me consider leaving Mint in favour of a different version of Linux.
Nemo treats that setting as a command (argv = ["tilix --maximize"]), instead parsing it as a commandline (argv = ["tilix", "--maximize"]):
You can create a wrapper script like:
#!/bin/sh exec tilix --maximize "$@"
save it somewhere in your PATH and have nemo run it instead.
There is a nemo plugin called nemo-media-columns which adds extra columns. One of these is called exif_rating, which might be what you want. See here: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo-extensions
Control center has no setting for the preferred file manager and Nautilus doesn't provide the open with tab in the properties window for folders:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=bcc1042a5f9f56162cfb2fd9b38b13697823f026
The same code is in Nemo as well:
https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/blob/master/src/nemo-properties-window.c#L4746
What should work though is manually changing the mime type association for inode/directory:
xdg-mime default nemo.desktop inode/directory
Thunar is killing me. It crashes mounting USB drives and at other bad times. I like Nemo but it's slow displaying folder contents and they can't figure out why, Nautilus is just plain ridiculous now, I forget my gripe with PCManFM. I just don't know what to use anymore.
Ok, that doesn't answer my question.
> I figured out the dependency issues
How?
> the .so file in the nemo plugins folder is NOT there
Assuming we are talking about this extension: It is written in Python, so it doesn't get compiled and there is no .so file.
I'm not familiar with that option, but if you hold "alt" when clicking and dragging something you get a similar-sounding menu.
It could be a regression; you could post about it here: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues
The difficulty here is that ZFS is a facet of Debian (Which Mint is based on). Since ZFS is a file system I would post an issue in the Nemo issues (Nemo is Mint's file manager) as well.
Right. Thanks. That's clearer.
Yes, the behaviour is not by design. The Nvidia driver - that's the proprietary one, yes? (there is also an open-source one) - might be to blame. If you don't find a solution here on Reddit, or even if you do, please file a bug report at the page I posted, or else perhaps here under Nemo. I could not find an existing bug report that seemed to be about the problem at issue; and the problem strikes me as the kind of problem that the Mint team might treat as fairly urgent.
Also, check these logs to see whether they shed light:
- the Cinnamon log (Panel -> Right-click -> Troubleshoot -> Looking Glass);
- various logs made available by the 'Logs' application.
Good luck.
good point.
I just checked: both nemo and nautilus are both using the custom-icon attribute:
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/search?search=NAUTILUS_METADATA_KEY_CUSTOM_ICON&group_id=8&project_id=1&scope=&search_code=true&snippets=false&repository_ref=master&nav_source=navbar
- https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/search?q=NEMO_METADATA_KEY_CUSTOM_ICON
what's weird is that running gio info <path> will not show the metadata::custom-icon attribute, but the following python script will:
import sys
from gi.repository import Gio
attribute = 'metadata::custom-icon'
folder = Gio.File.new_for_path('/run/media/asdf/linux-backup')
info = folder.query_info(attribute, 0, None)
print(info.list_attributes())
print(info.get_attribute_string(attribute))
# output:
# ['metadata::custom-icon']
# file:///home/asdf/Downloads/time-machine.png
how can that be?
You can check your update history for package changes in the mintupdate tool or in the apt logs in /var/log/apt/
You should be reviewing all changelogs and updates before applying them
You can file bugs here https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues for Nemo
The Cinnamon desktop environment uses Nemo for the desktop, that's how you can see folders on the desktop
https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/blob/master/files/usr/share/nemo/actions/sample.nemo_action
You could open issue tickets in the Nemo Github here https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues
This does not seem to work for me. I made sure to install everything in order. Am on
- Pop!_OS - 20.04.
- Nemo - 4.4.2
- Installed all the correct debs.
Spacebar does nothing. Already logged out and in and even rebooted. Checked plugins and everywhere else I could think of in Nemo preferences.
I tried a suggestion from elsewhere that said to try launching nemo-preview from terminal and got:
(nemo-preview-start:17410): Cjs-WARNING **: 11:54:11.270: JS ERROR: Error: Requiring NemoPreview, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GtkSource', version '3.0' not found @/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/viewers/xreader.js:32:7
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Apparently it's cause of a wrong version, according to this site.
>It's FOSS so you can just fork it and add the encryption that you want? Or just stop using it.
I mean, the entire premise behind free software security is that vulnerabilities are more easily found and thus can be fixed sooner, and since I can't personally review **every** piece of software I use, I have to trust other people to do it, but since people are apparently utterly irresponsible and can't be trusted to not just ignore serious vulnerabilities... yeah... Here's another one, in Linux Mint's file manager, where a virus extracted from an archive can easily disguise itself as a regular document...
>If apple did something like this you just wouldn't know about it and would keep using it.
You're right, I wouldn't know about it, and would live in blissful ignorance...
Looks like Nemo crashed
You could open/search a bug here https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues if you have a github account (wish they had a issue database that doesn't require a github account, then they could merge that after triage into their github one)
core dumps are stored in /var/lib/systemd/coredump as root
That does seem strange. However, I know too little about file permissions to shed light. Perhaps you should ask somewhere on the official Mint forum or file a report against Nemo. I could not find an existing bug report/question on the matter on the latter bug tracker.
(Bogglingly, someone seems to have downvoted your post, without providing a reason. I say without providing a reason because mine is the first comment on your post.)
> Does Mint have a bug tracker?
Several. I think probably this is the one you want. Do please report the problem, if there is no existing bug report for it.
I doubt that you could join different Nemo windows, even if the tab area were visible. This is a feature that must be implemented, it doesn't just work automatically. You could open an issue/suggestion on github and ask the devs directly.
The source code can be found here https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/tree/master/src
It could be as easy as simply commenting out a function call somewhere, but most likely not
nemo-list-view.c is probably a good place to start looking, but depending on how familiar you are with programming it might be a little too complicated
According the the INSTALL readme building nemo is as simple as running ./configure && make
Nemo is the Mint file manager.
There's an old work-around mentioned here, but I'm not sure if it works or not. YMMV.
Judging from the comments there, it's not going to be added as a feature.
That isn't currently an option, though I assume you already know how to sort by modification date via the 'arrange items' menu.
You can enable creation date in list view though - Preferences->List Columns
If you want the creation date sorting an option in icon view, you may want to submit a feature request here.
Multiple github issues have been created for the problem over the years. The latest has been going since 2018, lots of responses on it: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/1907
I've had to give up on Nemo and switch to Caja on both of my PCs.
If you use Nemo as a file manager, I think you can arrange folders manually in the view option if you're using the icon view, the changes will persists when you go back to that folder. But if you still want to use special characters in order to sort your folders, it might be not that simple (unless using numbers) since Nemo use some sort of "logical order" based on the alphanumerical characters. You might want to look at this complicated workaround. https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/578#issuecomment-361626286.
I find your post somewhat unclear.
Still: Nemo has many bugs that really need fixing. So, perhaps you should look at the bug tracker and contribute to an existing bug report or file a new report if necessary. The greater the attention that severe bugs in Nemo get, the more likely those bugs are to be fixed, and the better for all of us.
half of that sounds like window manager/DE problems(focus/highlights), which usually come bundles with filemanagers. There are portable formats though.
Keyboard shortcuts will be based on the application, not the function. Youll have to look up the specific filemanagers shortcuts(again depending on how integrated it is with the WM/DE, they may be dictated on that level).
nemo keyb/mouse usage https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/blob/master/docs/key_mouse_navigation.txt
I prefer Cinnamon over Mate in many ways, but there is one issue you might want to be aware of. The file manager in Cinnamon (Nemo) sucks in some pretty basic areas. If you do a lot of copying and pasting, it will really slow you down and create a lot of frustration. It just fails to perform these two most basic functions properly:
1) You know those little drop down triangles that enable you to expand the tree view? They consistently fail to update properly. This is a basic, fundamental process that should work in every file manager, but the Nemo devs have let this languish for years despite complaints. It makes Nemo almost unusable for me. See here for more visual information: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/508
2) When you have two tabs open in Nemo, and you want to copy a file from one tab to another, you must do it twice. The first time: click on the file, right click, select "Copy", open second tab, select "Paste"... "Paste" will be greyed out. Now you must go back to the first tab and repeat the process. The second time will work, every single time. The first time will fail, every single time. This is also quite frustrating and wastes a lot of time.
Nemo is buggy where it really matters for some people. Mate's file manager is MUCH better and has neither of these bugs. I haven't gotten around to changing file managers due to the potential to create unforeseen complications, but perhaps that can be done. Hope this helps.
do the cinnamon devs know about it?
actually, wasnt one guy doing multiple sets of restructuring code? https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/108#issuecomment-301262447 new settings have appeared
I'm using Mint with Cinnamon. It's not as polished as the "AAA" OS's, but it's still really smooth.
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/5XLdWL3.png
Check out the terminal embedded in the file manager; that's a badass feature. For anybody else looking: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo-extensions/tree/master/nemo-terminal
edit: link to the custom icon I'm using for the "Start" menu: https://materialdesignicons.com/icon/leaf
Here is the relevant bug report: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/1164
This may have been resolved in a new version of nemo since then. The latest version is currently 3.2 (3.0 is currently available on LM18) which will be distributed with Linux Mint 18.1
I dunno, I'm not a developer. It seems the user I linked above has already provided a fix for it, but it's not implemented in the official Nemo release. The Mint dev I linked to has also been working on several issues with Nemo's desktop handling and has the code up.
>There are a number of things I'm wanting to fix, the grid being just one: > https://github.com/mtwebster/nemo/commits/new-desktop > * Making right-click work regardless of whether you're showing the desktop folder on the desktop (so you always have Add desklets and Change background, etc... * Making the desktop folder view more intelligent with multiple monitors - no dead area or hidden icons if you have two monitors with different sizes or strange arrangements * Fixing the grid layout issues. > I've done mostly a lot of refactoring so far, but I should be getting into some nitty-gritty soon...
-mtwebster
It's a well known Nemo/Nautilus issue. See "[Suggestion] Desktop Grid" on the Nemo GitHub. Specifically this comment and following exchange. Also this comment by a Mint team member. In other words it appears to be getting fixed in the possibly near future, but for now basically just eyeball it.