Cinnamon File Manager - Nemo

[dave1953]

I've posted this once, but couldn't see any sight when I accessed the forum. So apologies if this posts twice.

I really like the Cinnamon desktop file manager Nemo and I wish it were possible to install nemo file manager, nemo-fileroller and nemo-share in Salix Linux without the necessity of installing the whole Cinnamon desktop environment.

Thank you.

[gapan]

I've never tried the cinnamon apps, but are they that different from the respective MATE apps we already have available (caja, atril, engrampa...)?

[dave1953]

Hi, thanks for taking the time to read my post. Fundamentally I suppose Thunar can do what I personally need thanks to you very kindly adding thunar-share plugin to the Salix resource; however it is purely a personal preference that I really like Nemo as i find it very easy and convenient. I always install Nemo (usually) in any distribution I have used, with nemo-fileroller and nemo-share, the only exception has been Slackware and Salix OS. As you rightly say, I can use Thunar (I have no experience of Caja as I've never used MATE), but if there is a "wish-list" for Salix then the nemo items listed would be at the top for me personally. Purely a selfish, personal preference.

[gapan]

Thunar is a different beast and I'm not suggesting that. But Caja and Nemo are both evolutions of the old gnome 2.x nautilus, so they should be pretty similar (although I repeat that I haven't tried Nemo). That's why I'm suggesting Caja.

[dave1953]

Thanks. I'll have a look. Not at the computer at the moment. I assume Caja etc is available from gpt-slapt within Salix OS?

[gapan]

Yes, it is.

[dave1953]

Thanks

[gapan]

I found some time, so I built 64bit packages for nemo + dependencies. You can find them here:
https://people.salixos.org/gapan/nemo/

Get all the packages, put them somewhere on your hard drive and in the same folder run:

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sudo spkg *.txz

[DidierSpaier]

George, out of curiosity I installed nemo with your packages, thanks.

I just needed to also type "slapt-src -i exempi" as exempi is shipped in Salix but not in Slint.

But I am too accustomed to PCManFM-Qt to switch and at first glance I didn't find features in nemo not available in Caja or PCManFM-Qt.

[brocashelm]

I'm a bit surprised that not even Slackware itself provides Nemo or any other Cinnamon-related packages. Nothing via the SlackBuilds repository, either...