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Atriqus

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From: Oscoda or Melbourne

Registered: 2004-02-15

Posts: 24

Filer: file manager

I was looking around for a file manager to use while I was in flux.  Nautilus always changes the background on me, konquerer doesn't work right, and I can't stand xfce4's (no offense to anyone who does, I'm just not a fan of that layout). 
Then I came across filer (not to be confused with ROX-filer), which appears to be a clone of gentoo that isn't painful to look at.

My problem seems to be that I can't even compile it normally, let alone make a build script for it.  I thought I had all it said it required, but I guess not.  If anyone has any free time and wants to try compiling it, let me know how that pans out.

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sarah31

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From: Middle of Canada

Registered: 2002-08-20

Posts: 2,975

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Re: Filer: file manager

Have you tried Emelfm? that may satisfy you until someone has a chance to look at your request.

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Atriqus

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From: Oscoda or Melbourne

Registered: 2004-02-15

Posts: 24

Re: Filer: file manager

Right now I'm using gnome so it's not really an issue, this was something that came to mind while I was reading some threads.  I switch between flux and gnome about every month, I just get tired of looking at the same screen all the time.  I was just curious if anyone else had any problems with it.
But thanks for the recommendation, though.  A lot less painful to look at than gentoo.... (mumbles under breath: either of them, really )

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campylobacter

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From: Austria

Registered: 2004-04-12

Posts: 60

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Re: Filer: file manager

You can start it only with ./filer.pl, but the requirements must be install first.

Download from http://search.cpan.org/
File::MimeInfo
File::BaseDir
Stat::lsMode

install it with a:
   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

i hope, it helps

ravster

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From: Queen's U, Kingston, Canada

Registered: 2004-05-02

Posts: 285

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Re: Filer: file manager

Heh, I've never never been successful in making any perl modules so far

@Atriqus:
You are right, it does look like gentoo. You should try xfe. All that it depends upon is the fox toolkit, already in the repos.

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kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

Posts: 596

Re: Filer: file manager

if you don't want nautilus to change your background, try running it like this:;
nautilus --no-desktop.

Anyway, I've had lot's of problems getting nautilus to work outside of gnome, cause it needs gnome-settings-daemon to be running. Anyway, you can run it, and it should work fine. The entire path is /opt/gnome/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon

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dammit

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Registered: 2004-07-06

Posts: 67

Re: Filer: file manager

hi can somebody please make a PKGBUILD for this.
thanks

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: Filer: file manager

I have created a PKGBUILD + package for Filer; you will have to install the Perl Modules yourself though

http://archlinux.spider007.net/created_packages/?filer