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I'm a mouse-hater... or more fairly, I hate being forced to use the mouse when a keyboard alternative should be possible.

With Nemo it's nice because you don't just have a filesystem navigator, you also get given a command line. But I can't find any way of getting from one to the other without using the mouse... anyone know if this is possible?

In things like FileExplore (Windoze) you can use tabbing and/or shift-tabbing (reverse order) and/or control-tabbing (escape upwards so you tab through the commands... or something)

mike rodent
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Searching the same answer, I found: 82 Shortcuts for Linux Mint (including Nemo)

Where you can find shortcuts like:

Panes

  • F3: Toggle Extra Pane (split view that shows two folder side by side)
  • F4: Toggle Terminal in top pane (require the Nemo Terminal plugin)
  • F6: Cycle focus between panes
  • F9: Toggle left pane (browsing folders only)
  • F8, then Arrow keys: Resize panes.

    Press F8 to cycle through the separators between panes (the selected one will be highlighted).
    Then use the arrow keys to resize the separator.

  • also bookmarks, and more...

Tabs

Browser-like:

  • Ctrl+T: New tab in current pane
  • Ctrl+Pg Up or Ctrl+Shift+Tab: Previous tab
  • Ctrl+Pg Down or Ctrl+Tab: Next tab
  • Ctrl+Shift+Pg Up / Pg Down: Move tab left / right
  • Ctrl+W: Close tab

Folders

Some classical shortcuts:

  • Alt+←: Previous browsed directory
  • Alt+→: Next browsed dir.
  • Alt+↑: Parent dir.

And many more, as seen in link title!

Happy keyboarding!

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another_nemo_user
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Not well implemented, and very poorly documented.

I'm just a common-or-garden mouse-hater. But accessibility requires that users be able to do the absolute maximum possible without using mice.

another_nemo_user correctly identifies F4 as the toggle of the top-pane-Terminal. BUT... THIS DOESN'T WORK WHEN YOU ARE INSIDE this pane! Instead you have to go Ctrl-L first (focus to breadcrumbs) and then F4.

Apart from that you have to Tab to get from breadcrumbs to the left-hand listing pane, Shift-F6 to get from there to the main (current directory) listing pane, and F6 to get from there to the left-hand listing pane.

Improvements: there should be a single hotkey command which traverses all visible panes in order and its shift- counterpart to traverse in reverse order... and another toggle key to move focus to/from the menu bar. This is the convention... and it is there for a good reason.

mike rodent
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