15 Ways to Tweak Nemo File Manager in Linux to Get More Out of it

Nemo is the default file manager of the Cinnamon Desktop. You get it in Linux Mint and other distributions with the Cinnamon desktop.

It’s a powerful file manager with plenty of features you might not know. Some tweaks are hidden inside the Nemo settings while some require installing additional extension packages.

I have included commands for installing extensions for Ubuntu and Debian-based distributions.

Note: Please don’t go and install all the extensions. Only use the ones you would use.

1. Enable quick file preview

Nemo Preview is a cool feature that comes in handy if you want to peek into some files on the go. You can access the preview feature for images, audio, video, PDF, etc.

It also allows scrolling the documents in preview mode and adds a floating control with a seek par in audio/video preview.

sudo apt install nemo-preview

Once installed, you may need to restart the Nemo file manager.

To activate the preview, select the file and press the Space key. Pressing the space key again will close the preview.

2. Click twice to rename

This is one of the iconic features of Nemo file manager, which is already offered in Dolphin File Manager of KDE, but absent in Nautilus of Gnome.

To enable this setting, you need to go to Edit > Preferences > Behaviour and toggle the option as shown below:

sudo apt install nemo-fileroller

6. Configure the right-click context menu

By default, there are many options in the right-click context menu. If you are one of those users who want to control what appears on your right-click menu, this is the feature for you.

You can access this setting from Edit > Preferences > Context Menus:

sudo apt install nemo-image-converter

Restart Nemo and you can access the additional options right within the right-click context menu.

sudo apt install folder-color-switcher

Another cool feature is to add emblems to files and folders. To give an emblem to a file or folder, right-click and go to the properties dialog box.

From this, select the emblems tab and add whatever emblem you like.

sudo apt install nemo-emblems

9. Verify checksum of files

There are dedicated tools to verify checksum of files in Linux. You can also check hashes in the Nemo file manager with nemo-gtkhash extension.

sudo apt install nemo-gtkhash

Now quit nemo and re-open. Select the file to check hash and go to the Digests tab in properties.

sudo apt install nemo-terminal

Now restart Nemo and you get an embed terminal on the top side.

To get this feature, you need to install nemo-media-columns:

sudo apt install nemo-media-columns

zenity, you can even give a GTK interface for your script.

Let me show an example.

Below is a script adding a color palette to select colour and copy the colour to copyq clipboard manager. Save the file with name Color in the above-mentioned directory and give it executable permission. Copyq and Zenity should be installed.

#!/bin/bash
name=$(zenity --color-selection --show-palette --title Color Select)
copyq add $name

[Nemo Action] Active=true Name=Reduce Image 50% Comment=Reduce the size of the image by 50% Exec=ffmpeg -i %F -vf scale=iw/2:-1 copy-50%f Icon-Name=image Selection=any; Extensions=jpg;jpeg;png;bmp;gif;tiff;raw; Terminal=true

Nautilus tweak article, a few readers requested a similar one for Nemo. And hence this article came into existence.

I hope you find the tweaks interesting. If you have suggestions or questions, please leave a comment.

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