emmaexe

I second nemo. Gnome makes it annoying to swap file managers since you need nautilus installed for the desktop icons so you can't just remove it. Nemo has its own but they aren't as good on gnome.

To swap away from nautilus after installing (any file manager, but in this example) nemo you use xdg-mime:

xdg-mime default nemo.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search

And if you use firefox, you also need to change this file:

/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.FileManager1.service

To point to the new file manager; e.g.:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.FileManager1
Exec=/usr/bin/nemo --gapplication-service

By default it is /usr/bin/nautilus or /bin/nautilus.

This is done since firefox does not use xdg to figure out your default file manager (depending on where you got it from YMMV).