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SanskritFritz

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2009-01-08

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Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

Although I already voted in this thread, but in the meanwhile I really fell in love with vidir.

GUI
[15] Dolphin
[10] PCManFM
[6] Krusader
[6] Thunar
[7] SpaceFM
[4] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm
CLI
[36] coreutils
[19] Ranger
[10] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

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manzdagratiano

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From: New Jersey, USA

Registered: 2010-10-08

Posts: 137

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI
[15] Dolphin
[10] PCManFM
[6] Krusader
[6] Thunar
[7] SpaceFM
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm

CLI
[37] coreutils
[19] Ranger
[11] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

I am surprised there is not so much love for ROX filer? I had once embarked on a quest for the perfect file manager for openbox, and I had to settle on ROX, even though I must admit I hated its default look when I first saw it in Dyne:bolic. Once you change the icon theme to GTK though, and change a few key-bindings (like F2 for search Shift+Delete instead of the default Ctrl + X (I have NO idea why) for delete), ROX just rocks!

I think maybe it might have to do with the fact that ROX seems to be ideal in the Stacking WM situation, while not so much for a Tiling one.... But then again, when I am in a Tiling WM, coreutils does the job fine for me!

Last edited by manzdagratiano (2012-04-22 23:29:23)

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mythus

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From: MS Gulf Coast

Registered: 2008-05-15

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Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI
[16] Dolphin
[10] PCManFM
[8] SpaceFM
[6] Krusader
[6] Thunar
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm

CLI
[38] coreutils
[19] Ranger
[11] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

I love Dolphin. I've yet to find a file manager as versitle to it, though SpaceFM does have some of the features that I like. I use Dolpin while in KDE (majority of the time) and SpaceFM in other environments. Space FM's multi-pane approach is very nice indeed.

I used to love konqueror as a file manager, and still think that old konqueror3 has dolphin beat. But konqueror4 uses dolphin as its kpart for file management, so no vote there for me.

When doing command line stuff, nothing beats the core utils.

BTW- I have tried to love qtfm. Didn't happen. Just not what I am looking for I guess.

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Evanlec

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Registered: 2007-12-16

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Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

Wow I'm surprised by all the responses to this thread. And also surprised about all the different filemanagers people love that I'd never heard of.!

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darkfeline

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Registered: 2012-02-14

Posts: 94

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI
[16] Dolphin
[10] PCManFM
[8] SpaceFM
[7] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm

CLI
[39] coreutils
[20] Ranger
[11] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

Thunar only because I started with xfce4 and it worked (and that's all you need to ask for).

coreutils because everyone uses them (impossible to use linux and now), and they work.

I recently installed ranger and it's very good so far.

Cloudef

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Registered: 2010-10-12

Posts: 636

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

I used to use spacefm and ranger at times, but after getting SSD and did new install on it, I've only used coreutils and heck it seems I don't need file manager at all.

GUI
[16] Dolphin
[10] PCManFM
[8] SpaceFM
[7] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm
CLI
[40] coreutils
[20] Ranger
[11] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

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ShadowKyogre

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Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI:
[17] Dolphin
[10] PCManFM
[9] SpaceFM
[7] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm

CLI
[41] coreutils
[20] Ranger
[11] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

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bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

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Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI:
[17] Dolphin
[11] PCManFM
[9] SpaceFM
[7] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm

CLI
[41] coreutils
[20] Ranger
[12] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

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Asmir

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From: BiH

Registered: 2011-10-06

Posts: 67

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI:
[17] Dolphin
[11] PCManFM
[9] SpaceFM
[7] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm

CLI
[42] coreutils
[20] Ranger
[12] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

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Trent

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From: Baltimore, MD (US)

Registered: 2009-04-16

Posts: 990

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI:
[17] Dolphin
[11] PCManFM
[9] SpaceFM
[8] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm

CLI
[43] coreutils
[20] Ranger
[12] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

The only useful feature a GUI file manager can have is "Open Terminal Here".

fjvinal

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From: Madrid

Registered: 2012-06-23

Posts: 45

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI:
[18] Dolphin
[11] PCManFM
[9] SpaceFM
[8] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm
CLI
[43] coreutils
[20] Ranger
[12] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

kalle97

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Registered: 2012-07-18

Posts: 80

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI:
[18] Dolphin
[11] PCManFM
[9] SpaceFM
[8] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm
CLI
[44] coreutils
[20] Ranger
[12] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

nbvcxz

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From: Poland

Registered: 2007-12-29

Posts: 202

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI:
[18] Dolphin
[11] PCManFM
[10] SpaceFM
[8] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm
CLI
[44] coreutils
[20] Ranger
[13] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

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flying sheep

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Registered: 2012-02-29

Posts: 93

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI
[19] Dolphin
[11] PCManFM
[10] SpaceFM
[8] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm
CLI
[45] coreutils
[20] Ranger
[13] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

no surprise here. dolphin works, and has every feature that i need, and that can’t be achieved by a service menu built in. especially the git and svn support is well-though out and works without quirks and/or surprise. then there is a big repo of those service menus i mentioned. in comparison to nautilus, the builtin console is saner than the nautilus plugin console, and neither two panel mode nor the breadcrumb/lineedit switch won’t go away. in comparison to pcmanfm, it has just more features i need (e.g. symlink creation), and i like the breadcrumb bar. a combination of that applies to thunar, but i love its rename capabilities: afaik the only field where dolphin has serious shortcomings in comparison.

i rarely use the console for more than basic file-managing tasks, with one exception: perl-rename. start using it, it’s insanely useful. this tool, together with oh-my-zsh’s autocompletion (which also w{orks,ith} curly braces) does everything i need in file manipulation.

Last edited by flying sheep (2012-08-06 19:31:40)

derhil

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Registered: 2012-04-04

Posts: 10

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

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qpalz

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From: Hong Kong

Registered: 2012-08-08

Posts: 18

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI
Dolphin

CLI
coreutils
I just know that there are file managers other than coreutils in CLI...

Last edited by qpalz (2012-08-09 04:37:02)

silversilver

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Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 14

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI
[20] Dolphin
[11] PCManFM
[10] SpaceFM
[8] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm
CLI
[45] coreutils
[21] Ranger
[13] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

I went ahead and added qpalz choice of dolphin to the count as well.

pshr

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 36

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI
[20] Dolphin
[11] PCManFM
[10] SpaceFM
[8] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm
[1] Xfe

CLI
[46] coreutils
[21] Ranger
[13] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

I have been using Xfe for a long time, its not pretty but gives me the same features as dolphin without the eyecandy/bloat.

Last edited by pshr (2012-08-15 13:29:57)

Shark

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From: /dev/zero

Registered: 2011-02-28

Posts: 686

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI
[21] Dolphin
[11] PCManFM
[10] SpaceFM
[8] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[4] Nautilus
[2] qtfm
[1] Xfe

CLI
[46] coreutils
[21] Ranger
[13] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

I have tried almost every GUI file manager and Dolphin is just awesome - nice look and of course endless configurability. I don't use CLI file managers but i like MC since Windows 3.1 times

Last edited by Shark (2012-08-15 13:31:57)

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blackout23

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Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 781

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI
[21] Dolphin
[11] PCManFM
[10] SpaceFM
[8] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[5] Nautilus
[2] qtfm
[1] Xfe
CLI
[46] coreutils
[21] Ranger
[13] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

Tried Thunar, Dolphin and others but did not feel a destinct advantage over Nautilus. At least nothing that you
notice immediately without taking some time to learn the in and outs. Maybe my requirements for a File Manager
are very low.

Pancake_Palace

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Registered: 2012-07-27

Posts: 21

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI
[21] Dolphin
[11] PCManFM
[10] SpaceFM
[9] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[5] Nautilus
[2] qtfm
[1] Xfe
CLI
[47] coreutils
[21] Ranger
[13] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

PCManFM crashes too often for my liking, and most of what Thunar won't do well, like change permissions on multiple files, I generally do in a terminal anyway. Using xfwm's default behavior that rips off W7's Snap, I don't need a dual-pane FM.

BKLive

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From: Georgia

Registered: 2008-01-28

Posts: 125

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI
[21] Dolphin
[11] PCManFM
[10] SpaceFM
[10] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[5] Nautilus
[2] qtfm
[1] Xfe
CLI
[47] coreutils
[22] Ranger
[13] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

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SeducingOrange

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Registered: 2012-07-24

Posts: 12

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

I'm all for Midnight Commander, although I usually get around with just cd, ls, pwd, mv, cp and rm

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lman

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From: CZ

Registered: 2007-12-18

Posts: 255

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI
[21] Dolphin
[11] PCManFM
[10] SpaceFM
[10] Thunar
[6] Krusader
[5] ROX Filer
[6] Nautilus
[2] qtfm
[1] Xfe
CLI
[47] coreutils
[22] Ranger
[14] Midnight Commander
[3] vifm
[3] vidir

t0m5k1

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From: overthere

Registered: 2012-02-10

Posts: 324

Re: Poll: Favorite File Manager (GUI or CLI)

GUI
[30] nautilus
[2] rox
[1] spacefm
[1] thunar

CLI:
[1] coreutils
[1] midnight commander

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