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I have to use LXDE as my DE because of the age of my computer/hardware, and I like it a lot, but I also like using Nautilus as my File Manager (it appears to have more options) for basic file browsing.

If I can I would like to change my default file manager from pcmanfm to Nautilus. I know this is possible, but the things I have seen, nothing seems to work the way I want it to.

Thanks!

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  • Please expand on "I know this is possible, but the things I have seen, nothing seems to work the way I want it to."
    – user25656
    Mar 20, 2013 at 2:09

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Look Manual Method section of Ubuntu Documentation. Probably you should only edit ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list file. Add two lines:

inode/directory=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop
x-directory/normal=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop

If there already is line as

inode/directory=pcmanfm.desktop

just remove it.

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  • didn't work for me :(
    – 842Mono
    Aug 12, 2014 at 19:20

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