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I changed from Nautilus to Nemo on my Ubuntu 20.04 and I really miss sushi functionality (pressing space bar and having a quick look on the file). I'snt there any way to have the same feature on Nemo? Thank you!

Andre
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LinuxMint has a fork of GNOME Sushi. They call it nemo-preview.

It may be installed by obtaining the needed packages manually:

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/backport/n/nemo-preview/nemo-preview_4.6.0+ulyana_amd64.deb
wget http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/backport/x/xreader/gir1.2-xreader_2.8.3+ulyssa_amd64.deb
wget http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/backport/x/xreader/libxreaderview3_2.8.3+ulyssa_amd64.deb
wget http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/backport/x/xreader/libxreaderdocument3_2.8.3+ulyssa_amd64.deb

sudo apt-get install ./gir1.2-xreader_2.8.3+ulyssa_amd64.deb ./libxreaderdocument3_2.8.3+ulyssa_amd64.deb ./libxreaderview3_2.8.3+ulyssa_amd64.deb ./nemo-preview_4.6.0+ulyana_amd64.deb


sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gtksource-3.0

Then you have to restart Nemo by nemo -q, launch it again, select file, hit Space and enjoy.

N0rbert
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  • Thank you for the answer my friend. Did all the steps and they seemed to have worked fine. I even rebooted the system but it didn't work. I hit space and nothing happens. Is there other step I should do? Thank you again. – Andre Jan 07 '21 at 11:59
  • Oh, really you need one extra package - run sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 and retry. – N0rbert Jan 07 '21 at 14:54
  • My friend! It did work like a charm! Thank you for the support! Cheers! – Andre Jan 07 '21 at 17:58
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    Great! So you can accept my answer here (checkmark in the left of the answer) :) – N0rbert Jan 07 '21 at 18:38
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    @N0rbert delivers again! Upvote for the only working solution found after hours searching. My dismay is only in finding up/down keys don't work to display images dynamically. Can only hit spacebar again to clear, then navigate, then hit spacebar, etc. Is there any way to get full usability as with sushi, and without installing the entire Mint DE? – u2n Jan 27 '21 at 16:33
  • @u2n I updated package versions in the above answer. I solved this problem on package level. Not sure about functionality. – N0rbert Jan 27 '21 at 17:52
  • Thanks @N0rbert, glad to know I'm not doing something wrong. But this really doesn't make sense: The (gutted) nautilus works beautifully (w/ gnome-sushi), updating the previewed image dynamically with navigation until the spacebar closes the preview window, while the full-featured nemo (the old nautilus before gutting) only previews images one-by-one (w/ nemo-preview) in a clunky spacebar-spacebar-navigate cadence. Even with a fresh Mint install, to get the smooth sushi operation, one must install gnome-sushi -- which pulls in nautilus: Anathema! – u2n Mar 17 '21 at 15:11
  • I just wish that with a preview open, you could use arrow keys to switch which file is being previewed. Any ideas? – Bruno Bronosky Feb 19 '22 at 20:02
  • SADLY, on 21.10 the solution does not work. – Arsenii May 10 '22 at 07:17
  • it's black magaic - but it works for me on Linux Mint THANKS – Tomachi Dec 08 '22 at 23:55