Setting Nautilus as default file manager on Xubuntu

**kwaanens** · September 26th, 2008

I'm using Xubuntu, and would like to change the file manager from Thunar to Nautilus.

I've tried seraching, and fiddling with some things, but to no avail.

How do I do that?

**Vahids** · November 2nd, 2008

goto Terminal and type:

Code:

sudo apt-get install nautilus

**kwaanens** · November 2nd, 2008

That installs Nautilus, but it obviously does _not_ set it as default file manager in XFCE. (However, I'm back to using Gnome exclusively, so it does not matter that much to me anymore)

**jittopjose** · November 2nd, 2008

i have installed xubuntu-desktop on my ubuntu intallation. so have nautilus, thunar, pcmanfm in my system. how can i make pcman or nautilus defalut in my xubuntu session?
jittos....

**fallingleaf** · December 31st, 2008

I'd love to find this out too. I love XFCE but I miss the features of Nautilus. I found an old howto thread but the config files it says to edit don't seem to exist.

**grausch** · April 5th, 2009

Hi,

I realise this is an older thread, but I have recently switched to Xubuntu 9.04. Now, I need Nautilus to access my network shares. I have tried the other methods in these forums to access the shares through thunar, but they did not work. Nautilus works perfectly, and I can access the terminal to open it, but I would like to set Nautilus to the default browser to enable other users to access my network shares. Can anyone help with this?