Nemo(1)

✨ Nemo(1) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because we're about to talk about nemo — that's the Cinnamon File Manager, the manual page for it, in the General Commands Manual section, iykyk 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

nemo — the Cinnamon File Manager 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

nemo [options] URIs...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this manual page documents the nemo command briefly — like, the sparknotes version, not the whole novel.

Nemo is the file manager for the Cinnamon desktop. That's the whole vibe. It's the file manager. Main character energy, no cap 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

Nemo follows the usual GNU command line syntax, where the long options start with two dashes (-). A summary of the options is included below, and yes, we're going through all of them, because I would never gatekeep 🫶

• -g, --geometry=GEOMETRY — Creates the initial window with the given geometry. You get to decide how big she is when she shows up 💅
• -t, --tabs — Opens the URIs in tabs. Very demure, very tidy 🌸
• --existing-window — Opens the URIs in an existing window instead of making a new one. Reuse, reduce, recycle ♻️
• -n, --no-default-window — Only creates windows for the URIs you explicitly specified. Like, if you didn't ask for it, she's not showing up, periodt 💀
• --fix-cache — Repairs the user thumbnail cache. This is lowkey a lifesaver if you're having trouble with file thumbnails. ⚠️ Must be run as root. ⚠️
• --debug — Enables debugging code. Example usage: NEMO_DEBUG=Actions nemo --debug. And if you want more topics, use NEMO_DEBUG=all. She will literally tell you everything 🔥
• -q, --quit — Quits Nemo. Bye bestie 👋
• --help — Shows a summary of options. The classic "help me help you" move 🙈
• --version — Shows Nemo's version. Gotta know which era of her you're dealing with ⭐

Other standard GNOME options that aren't listed here are also supported, so don't come for me if you find extra ones — they're legit, they're just not on this list 💜

👑 NOTE ON THE ROOT USER 👑

Okay so ordinarily, nemo and nemo-desktop treat being run as the root user as something special — with certain restrictions and UI changes. It's giving "we're watching you" energy.

But (!!) this behavior can be bypassed via a gsettings key. Use the following command to enable/disable this override:

gsettings set org.nemo.preferences treat-root-as-normal true|false

Set it to true or false — that's the whole toggle, no secret handshake required ✨

🐛 BUG REPORTS 🐛

Found a bug? Got a feature request? Please report them right here, bestie:

https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo

We love a github issue. It's literally the love language of open source 🫶

💖 AUTHOR 💖

This manual page was originally written for Nautilus by Takuo KITAME <kitame@debian.org> and Dafydd Harries <daf@muse.19inch.net> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Legends, honestly 👑

and that's the whole page, babe — this one's from October 2012, living in the Nemo(1) era, and yeah she's still slaying after all these years 💅✨