Nemo(1) General Commands Manual Nemo(1)

nemo-desktop - Nemo's desktop provider

nemo-desktop [options] URIs...

This manual page documents briefly the nemo-desktop command.

Nemo is the file manager for the Cinnamon desktop.

Nemo-desktop follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

Enable debugging code. Example usage: 'NEMO_DEBUG=Desktop,Actions nemo-desktop --debug'. Use NEMO_DEBUG=all for more topics.
Quit Nemo.
Show a summary of options.
Show Nemo's version.

Ordinarily, nemo and nemo-desktop treat being run as the root user as special, with certain restrictions and UI changes. This behavior can be bypassed via a gsettings key. You can use the following command to enable/disable this override:

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

Please report bugs and feature requests here: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo

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).

October 2012