Replacing Nautilus with Nemo

As posted previously I've replaced Unity (meh) with Cinnamon on my Ubuntu laptop.

Cinnamon comes with a fork of the Nautilus file manager, called Nemo, which is a slight improvement I find. However, although various posts go through how to install Nemo, I found that it and Nautilus were competing to draw the desktop - such that on every other re-boot I was running one or the other.

So, as well as ensuring that any folder launch commands and file associations use Nemo over Nautilus, I also had to prevent Nautilus from auto-starting:

In Ubuntu the X-Server desktop menu set-up is held at /etc/xdg. Within this, folder autostart determines what starts automatically with the desktop. Remove the nautilus-autostart.desktop file from there (and make sure the Nemo install has added one). This should mean Nemo is preferred everywhere.

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