Installing Nemo on Ubuntu

Reference: https://itsfoss.com/install-nemo-file-manager-ubuntu/

Nemo is a fork of Nautilus

Installing Nemo:

sudo apt install nemo

Making Nemo the default file manager in Ubuntu:

xdg-mime default nemo.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search

Set up Nemo to handle the desktop completely, in this order. The first command disables the handling of desktop by Nautilus:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false

The second command enables Nemo to take its place:

gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons true

You have now made Nemo the default file manager in Ubuntu. You can verify it by using the following:

xdg-open $HOME