Can Nautilus file manager be installed?

[mimosa]

That tells you what you have installed. To find out what is in the repos that you may not have installed, search in Gslapt or slapt-get.

[gapan]

I need a file manager which can do following simple task: find a file in the shown folder and its subfolders (the search string should preferably not need * at begining and end of search string); I should then be able to right click on any of the found files and cut it to be pasted elsewhere.

You can search for files with with Catfish. When you locate the files, you can right click on the entry in catfish, select to open with filemanager, which will load thunar, then cut the file and paste it where you want. One step more than you described, but just sayin'...

Users like me cannot create great applications but can humbly suggest that same name of application and its main command is very helpful to the uninitiated. It would be helpful if at least in Gslapt the name or description of this application includes the word 'Caja'.

OK, maybe. But the decision to name the application executable as "caja" and the package "mate-file-manager" was made by the MATE developers, not Salix. Salix is not in the habit of randomly changing package names as other distributions do.

Where can I see a list of all mate applications?

In a terminal give:

ls /usr/bin/mate-*

or

locate /usr/bin/mate-*

Not necessarily correct and certainly incomplete. There are several mate applications that this command will not find (atril, engrampa, caja...). It will also not find applications you haven't installed.

You could get a list of all mate packages with

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slapt-get --search mate

although that will also give you several packages that are not actually related to mate, but have "mate" somewhere inside their description.

You could certainly use

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slapt-get -s --install-set mate

and that will show you everything that is in the mate package set in the repos.

And you could certainly open Gslapt, sort packages by the Location column and see which ones are in the "mate" set.