favourite file manager and why

stonecrest · 2005-10-26 00:30:21

xerverius wrote:

I'm using ... the lastest svn version of thunar, the new file manager for Xfce. It's not finished yet, but you can copy, past and walk through directories and that's enough for me .

I'm using thunar as well and feel the same way. It's light, beautiful, and has been through enough development that it's usable for me.

Dusty · 2005-10-26 03:00:24

phrakture wrote:

Penguin wrote:
Dusty wrote:
How come I knew that such a thread in such a forum would generate such a response from such a moderator?
Dusty
How come I knew you were going to makeasmartasscommment?
Man, I was gonna say that, though with more spaces

What on earth makes you guys think I actually had the time to make a SAC? I mean, obviously if I post its going to be one, but how did you know I'd have time to post.

I should alias those commands
l=>ls, c=>cp, mv=>m, r=>rm - it'd double my productivity!

You mean you haven't yet? :shock:

Dusty

mr_brightside · 2005-10-26 08:31:24

I had a look at Thunar t'other day... looks very interesting. I might check it out.

GBrowser looks awesome; it's a shame it's so buggy atm; it's one to monitor though.

sash · 2005-10-26 13:22:28

I use Rox--light, fairly quick to load and it does the job well.

iggy · 2005-10-26 21:50:41

my favorite at the moment is emelfm2! i love 2-panel-managers! easy and very fast! only thing that is not so good: its a little bit buggy. sometimes it crashes. anyone knows a filemng like emelfm2 (same features), but not so buggy?

mfg

Snowman · 2005-10-26 23:31:45

iggy wrote:

my favorite at the moment is emelfm2! i love 2-panel-managers! easy and very fast! only thing that is not so good: its a little bit buggy. sometimes it crashes. anyone knows a filemng like emelfm2 (same features), but not so buggy?
mfg

pacman -S gentoo ?

T-Dawg · 2005-10-26 23:35:41

midnight commander (mc) is nice for putty sessions.

sweiss · 2005-10-27 06:18:12

I like Konqueror, since it also has an as-you-type filter (look for konq_quickfilter in AUR).

Also because of the kioslaves, and because I'm a KDE user. It's also a fine web browser.

iggy · 2005-10-27 12:08:30

hey, thx for your tip snowman. but gentoo is to l33d! heavy configuration and not so "easy to use" like emelfm2.

postlogic · 2005-10-27 12:24:28

What the hell... Since when did linux get a filesystem? *ponder* I MUST SEE THIS AT ONCE!

*ahem* Anyway. I use CLI. PEriod. I don't feel comfortable in xffm/gentoo/mc/rox/whatever.

CyberTron · 2005-10-27 15:08:29

I use CLI most of the time , otherwise it is EFM/Entropy (quite unstable) and XFE which is very ugly although it works and does what it does and does it good....*phiuu*

CLI rules when handling files

pressh · 2005-10-27 15:20:24

iggy wrote:

my favorite at the moment is emelfm2! i love 2-panel-managers! easy and very fast! only thing that is not so good: its a little bit buggy. sometimes it crashes. anyone knows a filemng like emelfm2 (same features), but not so buggy?
mfg

pacman -S emelfm

edit:
you also might want to try 'pacman -S worker'

bardo · 2005-10-27 17:05:17

I have to admit that I don't feel very much the need for a graphical file manager, so I most often use the CLI. GFMs are useful only for some operations, like the quick copy of sparse files to a single directory: if you have a 2-panel file manager you can do it in almost no time without touching the mouse, and without losing too much time typing in a shell.
So, for this category, I'm in love with emelfm2! With gentoo I lost some data for a stupid bug (but I'm sure they'd call it a feature) and I'll never be able to trust its devs anymore

I'll have a look at gbrowser and thunar (even if its name sucks).

keevn7 · 2005-10-28 01:49:43

ROX - Simple with enough features.

phrakture · 2005-10-28 05:59:15

OMG! http://cade.datamax.bg/vfu/

This thing rocks

mr_brightside · 2005-10-28 10:43:27

Sweet find Phrakture; tis minty indeed.

phrakture · 2005-10-28 15:21:26

mr_brightside wrote:

Sweet find Phrakture; tis minty indeed.

Yeah I was searching for alternatives to mc - I don't like the 2 panel interface and I don't like the bindings (mainly due to the fact that the F<N> keys don't translate well over putty (forcing me to hit ESC+0 for F10, et al). VFM is sweet, and I'll probably package it, assuming I can configure it nicely (not a fan of the default colors, ugh)

Lone_Wolf · 2005-10-29 17:49:35

MC / Krusader / Total Commander

(i HAVE to work with windows XP in my job)

reasons :

http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/index.shtml

mpie · 2005-10-29 20:18:53

phrakture wrote:

OMG! http://cade.datamax.bg/vfu/
This thing rocks

take a peak in the aur....

High|ander · 2005-10-30 07:37:32

nautilus (because i run gnome, and its default there )

pomj · 2005-10-30 14:14:23

I use zsh and vifm http://vifm.sourceforge.net/index.html
If you like vi/m you should check it out.

/pomj

iBertus · 2005-10-30 17:52:15

nautilus when I'm using GNOME, otherwise rox or CLI. I personally find nautilus less bulky and slightly more usable than konquerer.

High|ander · 2005-10-30 18:48:33

nautilus is really nice, the only thing that is anoying is that i cant get the ssh-connections to work aginst my server

mr_echo · 2005-10-30 22:17:55

High|ander wrote:

nautilus is really nice, the only thing that is anoying is that i cant get the ssh-connections to work aginst my server

I had the same problem for a long time. However, when I switched to keybased authentication it started working again. Dunno if it was because of that though.

Maybe gnome-vfs/nautilus has problems authenticating against a FreeBSD server using challenge-response? Anyone else who have had the same problem or knows better?

Oh, btw, I'm using Nautilus as well. It's fast, slick and slim.

gunnix · 2005-12-17 11:26:10

I use the cli mostly. But use emelfm for graphical use. I'm looking for another graphical file manager because emelfm is a dead project. Emelfm2 is using gtk2, which is too slow imo. Rox is gtk2 as well but I don't even like it's interface and behaviour etc. Gentoo is to complicated... xfe uses a strange toolkit (fox ??), and on my first try it already crashed!

In the cli I liked clex, vifm. Clex (http://www.clex.sk/) definatly is cool. And I gonna try vfu now too

I always end up using cp, ls, mv, cd ... and emelfm though. I keep looking for a good lightweight file managers for the noobs using linux here (my mom lol).

By the way, one of my biggest irritations is that there is no central filetype management in linux yet. What a pain.

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