Author: Andrew
| Date: October 30, 2013
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| Tags:
cinnamon,
linux mint,
nemo,
unity
Update: for Nemo 3.x, available for Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10, there's a new PPA. See THIS article for more info.
Nemo, the default Cinnamon file manager, needs Cinnamon to be installed, even if you want to use it in some other desktop environment such as GNOME/Unity. That's not the only issue that makes using the latest Nemo under Unity difficult - Cinnamon 2.0 breaks Unity in Ubuntu 13.10, Nemo no longer draws the desktop icons and so on.
Update: the PPA now provides Nemo 2.8.7 for Ubuntu 16.04, 15.10, 15.04 and 14.04.
I wanted to use the latest Nemo under Unity, but without Cinnamon dependencies so I used the
Nautilus Unity patches modified for Nemo by
Jacob Zimmermann, which I updated to work with the latest Nemo, and I also added some extra patches to
remove the Cinnamon dependencies (except for cinnamon-translations but that shouldn't be an issue),
re-enable Nemo to handle the desktop icons and allow Nemo to use GNOME Control Center / Unity Control Center to change the desktop background or set a picture as wallpaper via context menu.