Linux nemo file explorer edit left hand menu bookmarks

I added the desktop folder as a sidebar bookmark twice by accident and couldn’t remove the duplicate through the Nemo GUI — the option was greyed out. Editing ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks directly fixed it immediately. Simple file, one entry per line.

To update nemo left hand menu bookmarks

I added desktop as a bookmark twice and was unable to remove it via nemo file explorer GUI.

So, I updated the configuration by editing the nemo bookmarks file.

The steps to do that are:

$ cd ~/.config/gtk-3.0/ 

$ # let us first check what all entries are there

$ cat bookmarks

$ # now as a super user or by using sudo you can edit this file to add or remove bookmarks