Omarchy replaces Nautilus with Files, its own Qt file manager
Grid, list and column views, a Space preview that replaces Sushi, Taildrop and LocalSend sharing: Files takes over from Nautilus as Omarchy’s file manager.
Image: omacom/folio README (GitHub)
Nautilus is on its way out. DHH merged a pull request on November 10, 2026 that swaps GNOME’s file manager for Files, Omarchy’s own, coming in the next version. Under the hood the app is called folio, and its repository describes it as “Omarchy’s file manager: airy, keyboard-first, and following the theme”.
Files joins the growing family of in-house apps. According to the PR, it is built in C++ and Qt Quick like Hype, Signed and Omawrite, follows the Omarchy theme (rounded corners included) and language, is keyboard-first, and has no animations.
DHH’s PR lists what Files covers that Nautilus did in Omarchy:
- Grid, list and column views.
- A full-size preview on Space for pictures, video, audio, PDFs, text and Markdown, which replaces Sushi.
- A right-click menu with open with, rename, duplicate, copy/cut/paste that works with other apps, compress, and sharing by Dropbox link, Taildrop or LocalSend.
- Recents and Trash with restore, drives, and tailnet machines over SFTP through GVfs.
- Pins shared with GTK file dialogs as bookmarks, and
org.freedesktop.FileManager1support so “Show in folder” lands in Files.
Muscle memory is safe: Super+Shift+F and Super+Alt+Shift+F now launch Files, folders open in it by default, and the dock pins it. The old omarchy-launch-nautilus and omarchy-launch-nautilus-cwd commands stay as hidden wrappers, so personal bindings that call them keep working.
Existing installs get a migration that installs Files, points a personal mimeapps.list or dock pin from Nautilus to Files, and removes nautilus, nautilus-python, nautilus-dropbox and sushi. The LocalSearch indexer goes with them, since nothing else needs it, while the gvfs-* backends stay. Dropbox users don’t lose anything: the PR says Files shows Dropbox status and makes share links itself.
One gap remains. The transcode.py Nautilus action has no Files equivalent yet; the PR says it is planned as part of Files’ actions menu.
The app is packaged as folio in omarchy-pkgs, starting at v0.1.0. That package follows the folio repository’s releases with auto-merge, so new versions of Files will ship the same way as the other Omacom apps. A follow-up fix from contributor birkskyum, also merged on November 10, adds xdg-user-dirs to the base packages: Nautilus had been pulling it in, and fresh installs on edge were failing without it.
