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I’d love a setting to change the default file manager. I always install Nemo and configure it to be the default but last I checked, it’s not a simple GUI setting like changing the default browser or email client or whatever. And then you end up with two programs called “Files,” which obviously isn’t ideal.
Would it be that much of a problem to have what app is “Files” be a simple setting? Maybe it’s way more complicated than one assumes.
You can set the default app in the settings though, right?
Yes and no. The setting affects the file manager, but things like "open/save file" dialogues will still use the Gnome file chooser, which is separate from Nautilus and not easily circumvented.
Maybe they added this when I wasn’t looking. It’s been awhile since I did a fresh install of a Gnome distro. (I use Fedora for work stuff and I’ve learned over the years to leave my work laptop the fuck alone and distro hop on a personal laptop.)
It's still a problem. And then once I finally set thunar as default, Firefox continues to open Nautilus. Removing Nautilus isn't an option either since it's a dependencie of something else.
I really hope choosing a default file manager woll be simple and always working at some point.
On my kids' pcs the default file manager is nemo and they use gnome, so it is possible
Most DEs do include the file manager in the default applications menu. You can also use xdg-mime to set it as the default for inode/directory
Until some app doesn't care about xdg-mime. At least I had some issues with firefox a while ago.