When you open file manager you get
Now go to Menu --> Accessories --> File Manager --> right click, and choose properties
Change pcmafm to nautilus and you will get
However that only changes the application that will be opened by the shortcut "file manager". It does not make nautilus
the "default file manager" in the proper sense: Opening a folder on the desktop, or opening a file location from an application would not open nautilus, but still pcmanfm
.
Note: I will be adding information on how to make this change permanent in the next couple of days.
Note: This is my own personal opinion. I've tried these steps on my machine, and they worked. But I didn't like the outcome.
Change the contents of /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
as shown below.
From
@xscreensaver -no-splash
@setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,ar
@lxpanel --profile LXDE
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE
@/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
To
@xscreensaver -no-splash
@setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,ar
@lxpanel --profile LXDE
@/usr/bin/nautilus -n
@/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
Also you can take a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DefaultFileManager to see if it might help.
Edit:
In Ubuntu 14.04 here's what I did. I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 14.04, and then installed LXDE. Once that was done, I set nautilus as a default file manager using the following command:
xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search
and then I checked the current default file manager using the command below:
xdg-mime query default inode/directory
and it showed Nautilus as the default. See image below.
Best Answer
After struggling with this Nautilus' slowness for a while, I decided to change my default as well. All of the "proper" solutions I tried doing didn't work very well. For instance, choosing the default in
exo-preferred-applications
didn't update the dash (or much else for that matter), changing.desktop
files only worked sometimes (Dropbox still used nautilus), etc.The simple solution that works for me in all cases without mucking with changing desktop files was to do the following two commands:
You can of course replace
/usr/bin/pcmanfm
with/usr/bin/thunar
, or whatever.Edit: If you also want to have a desktop, open
/etc/xdg/autostart/nautilus-autostart.desktop
and make the Exec line