I realized today my install of Cinnamon does not have a default file manager.
Nemo is installed, and works, but it is not default nor can it be set as default, it is not available in the list. (See screenshot).
Edit: I still don’t know WHY, but in the terminal it worked with:
xdg-mime default nemo.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search
Of course this should not be neccesary, and Nemo still doesn’t show up in the list of possible choices. But it is set, and I won’t remove it, so… all good I… guess?
I still want to know what causes this bug but at least it works.
I just installed Cinnamon again just for something to do. Nemo is installed and working as preferred app. So what else did you install? Terminal? and ?? Maybe something you added?
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I think I figured out… not the EXACT cause but the suspect:
I didn’t do a reinstall, I just purged Xfce completely and installed Cinnamon.
HOWEVER: I had already set Nemo as default file manager in Xfce, as I usually do (I REALLY don’t like Thunar).
I wonder if by purging Xfce with Nemo already installed and set as default somehow got a dot file somewhere to indicate that Nemo doesn’t exist? Even after reinstalling it?
Do you have all these installed?
Maybe check in ~./config for thunar?
Edit: You may be right if you removed Xfce that way?