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#26 2007-03-19 19:35:28

Spitbyte
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Re: File Manager selection

icrave wrote:

I use pcmanfm, too. Its fast and simple, and i like the features that includes, but my version crashes sometimes. This is the only negative point.

Hey, I used to use pcmanfm exclusively but started encountering random crashes. I've been trying to find a way to sort it but have now switched to Thunar instead, its nice, but I'd prefer to use something that does not rely on Xfce.

What sort of crashes are you having?? I can barely use it without it seg faulting even when simply browsing through folders/files. Feedback on the term simply gives and unhelpful 'segmentation fault' and I can't get it to die through strace -- I'm all outta ideas on this one. Even tried contacting the author but never received a reply. Oh well sad

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#27 2007-03-19 20:16:10

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Re: File Manager selection

The same sort of crashes than you sad.

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#28 2007-03-19 21:01:42

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Re: File Manager selection

I usually use aterm, but for a graphical one I would say Thunar.


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#29 2007-03-20 07:48:33

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Re: File Manager selection

icrave wrote:

The same sort of crashes than you sad.

Thanks for the confirmation - I was starting to think it was just me smile

Can't help thinking its something to do with my system; the stuff i've installed from 'testing' perhaps causing problems. I searched on the forum and there wasn't a mention of the issues I'm having with pcmanfm. I would love to figure it out!

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#30 2007-03-20 10:18:58

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Re: File Manager selection

I can't decide between rox and thunar. The first is faster but its weird way to do things (no cut and paste I mean) sometimes confounds me. Thunar is slower (only a bit), nicer looking but with less features. Konqueror is far better than both but I wanted something lighter (same applies to Nautilus).


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#31 2007-03-21 02:46:37

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urxvt + screen + mc, using wmctrl to give me a pop-up console thingy

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#32 2007-03-21 12:08:55

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Re: File Manager selection

onearm wrote:

I've been trying to find a way to sort it but have now switched to Thunar instead, its nice, but I'd prefer to use something that does not rely on Xfce.

The 2 libraries that are used by Thunar (exo and libxfce4util) are hardly _Xfce_ libraries. Libxfce4util only provides a very fast config-file api and exo contains a lot of Thunar objects that were dropped in exo to be used by other applications, so the latter is a fully Thunar aimed library.

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#33 2007-03-21 19:13:52

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Re: File Manager selection

xerverius wrote:
onearm wrote:

I've been trying to find a way to sort it but have now switched to Thunar instead, its nice, but I'd prefer to use something that does not rely on Xfce.

The 2 libraries that are used by Thunar (exo and libxfce4util) are hardly _Xfce_ libraries. Libxfce4util only provides a very fast config-file api and exo contains a lot of Thunar objects that were dropped in exo to be used by other applications, so the latter is a fully Thunar aimed library.

I like Thunar ( miss the tabs from pcmanfm though ) and was sure installing it meant you had to pull in loads of xfce related stuff. If I can uninstall xfce and just install Thunar and a couple of libs then I'd be happy..  I'll try it when i get the chance smile thanks for the tip!

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#34 2007-03-21 19:17:05

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i'm thinking the (arch)devs changed lib exo's dependencies, cause i swear i installed thunar a couple months ago, as in pacman -Sy thunar, and it pulled down half of xfce

edit: the cvs revision notes (2 months old) mention removing unused packages... so yeah i don't think i was hallucinating

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#35 2007-03-21 22:29:35

Honken
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Are you using the fam daemon, or the gamin daemon? It's recommended to use the latter for a reason I guess.

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#36 2007-08-03 03:47:51

tandycorp
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Re: File Manager selection

icrave wrote:

I use pcmanfm, too. Its fast and simple, and i like the features that includes, but my version crashes sometimes. This is the only negative point.

hey dude, just a fast question: my pcmanfm doesn't start at all in user mode, only works in root. Have you had that problem? (using the arch package from community)

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#37 2007-08-03 05:33:21

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Another one to try is Emelfm2. Been using it for some time and love it. Dual pane setup and configurable. So far the best I have used.

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