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The question is about Nemo file manager, which is default for Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon.

Is it possible to achieve behavior similar to google chrome or other browsers? When I have an instanve of chrome already running and I execute command google-chrome www.some-url.com the new window won't be created, but instead the URL will open in existing chrome window as a new tab.

Nemo file browser opens a new window every time I click on the link to the local file, folder or execute a command nemo \some\local\path

What I would ideally like is for Nemo to mantain single instance (window) unless it has been explicitely told to open a new window, just as most web browsers do. I really don't mind if Nemo opens a new tab or uses the existing one to open the url that has been passed to it as long as new window is not created.

Has anyone tried to achieve such behavior? Is it possible at all? Any suggestions?

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    Related issue: github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/461
    – Redsandro
    Feb 9, 2015 at 14:43
  • 5 years later, the github thread is locked and feature is not in development. Maybe not so many people actually need it...
    – Art Gertner
    Mar 2, 2020 at 14:19
  • @ArtGertner Oh a lot of people wanted it and reacted with +1. The devs just locked it for no reason.
    – simonzack
    Nov 21, 2020 at 9:55
  • I know it is an ugly hack, but I achieved something like this by using PyAutoGUI of Python.
    – ankit
    Mar 27, 2021 at 14:24
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    @ankit, can you please share the solution? Maybe post it as an answer. Thanks
    – Art Gertner
    Mar 28, 2021 at 0:45

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nemo --tabs "/home/name/folder1" --tabs "/home/name/folder2" --tabs "/home/name/folder3"
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