File manager options in Arch/GNOME

pete-the-meat · 2008-08-14 21:28:03

Hi!

This is my first post here - I'm an Arch user for about three days now. I migrated fro mWindows XP to Ubuntu about six months ago and decided to move to a different distro because I was fed up of the shocking speed (which, admittedly, was a lot faster than XP), not being encouraged into the terminal (everything has a shiny interface) and everything constantly breaking (I think i've typed dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg more times than my name now). I really like what I see - it's super fast and lightweight and installing Arch, X and GNOME was super smooth (apart from a 36 hour bad-patch where I got my network cards confused ). The only major gripe I have with it is that nautilus is an absolute pita here - it's the only thing I can honestly say was better in Ubuntu. Nautilus here has no sidebar, status-bar or navigation bar and opens every folder in a new window. Whenever I'm moving around anywhere other than in home I like to use the terminal, but I do a lot of browsing in my home directory and find it's pretty essential to have a good file manager so I thought I'd post a thread and see if anyone had any reccomendations for good file managers for Arch/Gnome. What's popular, what works well and what looks good? (I need something easy on the eye, screenshots would be nice) - can anyone pass on a reccomendation?

Cheers

Pete

fwojciec · 2008-08-14 21:31:49

Your complaint about nautilus -- you can change this behavior and make it look like Ubuntu. I don't have nautilus installed, but in the nautilus section gconf-editor you have to find something like "always use browser" or something like that. I think this setting can be also switched from preferences in nautilus.

pete-the-meat · 2008-08-14 21:38:10

Oh brilliant - I'd still be interested in trying something new though - if anyone had any suggestions I've alredy had a peek at rox, but ideally somethign that runs inside Gnome

fwojciec · 2008-08-14 21:44:46

Nautilus is the gnome file manager, and it does more than just browse/manipulate files. It also displays the wallpaper, manages desktop icons, and more. No replacement is going to integrate with gnome desktop as well as nautilus does.

Having said that, here are some ideas: thunar, pcmanfm, rox, gnome-commander...

Inxsible · 2008-08-15 04:40:03

+ 1 for pcmanfm - it does what it advertises. File Management. It can also do desktop background...but I never use it. Nice and simple. Supports tabbed browsing. Very lightweight - but that's probably not the most important thing you are looking for, considering that you are using Gnome.

Thunar is another good file manager. I like it more than nautilus because it does not have all the additional functions like cd burner and sound juicer. I have always HATED sound juicer and serpentine that comes along with nautilus.

emelfm - very lightweight. Kinda like norton commander interface with two panels.

clex - command line based file manager

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wonder · 2008-08-15 06:07:39

The only major gripe I have with it is that nautilus is an absolute pita here - it's the only thing I can honestly say was better in Ubuntu. Nautilus here has no sidebar, status-bar or navigation bar and opens every folder in a new window. Whenever I'm moving around anywhere other than in home I like to use the terminal, but I do a lot of browsing in my home directory and find it's pretty essential to have a good file manager so I thought I'd post a thread and see if anyone had any reccomendations for good file managers for Arch/Gnome.

you can configure nautilus doing that:
open nautilus->edit->preferences; select Behaviour and mark Always Open in browser windows.

Stythys · 2008-08-15 11:59:34

I also use pcmanfm. love it.

Rumor · 2008-08-15 12:52:19

As others have said, enabling the side bar / browser options in Nautilus is a matter of a couple clicks. pcmanfm is a very nice alternative to nautilus as is thunar.

xd-0 · 2008-08-15 17:10:52

I would recommend pcmanfm since it has tabbed browsing. Though the comming release of nautilus will also have this option.
And the as the others have said, you can change a lot of things in nautilus. You should also install gconf-editor since there is where you can find all of the configration for gnome apps.

ScriptDevil · 2008-08-16 04:08:15

Well, If you really want to harness the power of your keyboard, try mc

Inside mc, press F9 for the menu, go to options->Configuration and enable lynxx like motion

The speed will be unbelievable

kanim · 2008-08-16 08:30:17

Well, If you really want to harness the power of your keyboard, try mc
Inside mc, press F9 for the menu, go to options->Configuration and enable lynxx like motion
The speed will be unbelievable big_smile

yes mc is realy fast and even has a nice functionality i love mc

yama · 2008-08-16 09:48:15

If you dont mind pulling in the XFCE dependencies then its a good choice and have nice archive plugins. Its lightweight and fast.

I have changed to PCmanFM. Its a tad more lightweight then thunar. It has less dependencies and is very fast... As said above it can also give you desktop icons (if it does a good job with it i have no idea. never used it).

Personally i would go for PCmanFM

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