Directory Menu for Cinnamon

Open a directory of your choice in a dropdown menu, offering a compact view and/or a faster navigation through the file tree.

This is a re-creation of a built-in feature in XFCE.

Features

• View the selected directory as a compact list
• Arbitrarily deep navigation through subdirectories
• Fast navigation: just hover on a directory to open it
• Open any file by clicking on it
• "Open in Terminal" button for directories
• Configurable settings for sorting, handling hidden files, limiting menu width, and customization

Installation

Download or clone this repo, then put the directory-menu@torchipeppo directory (contained in the files directory) into ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/

Compatibility

Developed, tested and extensively used by the author on Cinnamon 5.0.7 and Cinnamon 6.0.

Also tested successfully on Cinnamon 5.2.

Likely to work in near-future versions. May also work in some previous versions, but it's untested there, so there's no guarantee.