Configure cinnamon desktop with nemo in arch system

1 Install Vivaldi as alternate browser

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# pacman -S vivaldi

2 Mount Google Drive on Linux

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/mount-google-drive-ocamlfuse-linux

Then configure it at start up

Add the following custom command for “Startup Applications”.

google-drive-ocamlfuse /home/<username>/googledrive

3 Install Nemo Plugins

Nemo is the default file manager for cinnamon but you may need to install the following plugins.

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# pacman -S nemo-fileroller nemo-preview

• nemo-fileroller - support compressed file formats (zip, tar, gz)
• nemo-preview - press the spacebar to view a preview of the selected file.

i usually install zip and unrar separately incase i may want to purge everything nemo in future and use windows manager like i3.

For uncompressing tar.gz files, bstar comes installed by default in arch.

4 Show and Enable Cinnamon Desktop Icons

Press WinKey,then Search (System Settings)

System Settings –> Desktop

Enable the following Desktop Icons

• Computer
• Home
• Trash
• Mounted Drives

Then run below command to enable the desktop icons for easier navigation

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

Ensure you change the default file manager to nemo

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$ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

Change inode/directory=nemo.desktop

5 Install Lepton for Github Gists

https://snapcraft.io/install/lepton/arch