Revert to Nautilus

Question

After I installed Cinnamon, Nemo automatically installed itself, and now Nemo is default file browser. How can I revert to Nautilus.

Answer 1

There are numerous ways to accomplish this.

1. Try running exo-preferred-applications from the terminal(Ctrl+Alt+t ). You should see an option to change your file manager on the 2nd tab named "Utilities".

   

2. Using xdg-mime, You could also run the following command to determine your current default file manager:

   • xdg-mime query default inode/directory

   • This should return nemo.desktop as a result.

   • In order to change this, run:

   • xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directory application

3. You can edit the file ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
   • look for the line containing inode/directory=nemo.desktop;
   • change it to read inode/directory=nautilus.desktop;