---
name: "nemo-desktop"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "nemo"
version: "6.6.4-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nemo-desktop"
---

# nemo-desktop(1)

Nemo's desktop provider

## NAME

nemo-desktop - Nemo's desktop provider

## SYNOPSIS

**nemo-desktop** \[*options*\] *URIs*...\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **nemo-desktop** command.

Nemo is the file manager for the Cinnamon desktop.\

## OPTIONS

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

- **--debug**

  Enable debugging code.  Example usage: 'NEMO\_DEBUG=Desktop,Actions nemo-desktop --debug'.  Use NEMO\_DEBUG=all for more topics.

- **--quit**

  Quit Nemo.

- **--help**

  Show a summary of options.

- **--version**

  Show Nemo's version.

- Other standard GNOME options not listed here are also supported.

  ## NOTE ON THE ROOT USER

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

## BUG REPORTS

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

## AUTHOR

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).