Looking for a new file manager

civ247 · 2006-05-26 11:43:59

Im currently using the Fvwm window manager with nautilus. I love the convenience of nautilus but you half to install half of gnome to get it working which sucks.

Id apreciate it if people would post any suggestions as an alternative.

Thanks!

rezza · 2006-05-26 12:11:16

rox
thunar
gentoo
emelfm

mpie · 2006-05-26 12:14:14

bscommander

ujjwal · 2006-05-26 12:14:45

Thunar is a great file manager. I recommend it to anybody looking for a nautilus replacement. But it is still a little early in development, so it would have an odd bug or too. I love the combination of thunar and emelfm.

IsSuE · 2006-05-26 12:20:14

full ack, thunar just rocks. I switched from nautilus to thunar, the first time i heard of thunar. I really like the custom action thingy, where you can define an action when clicking on a file for example.
So, add shadowhands xfce repository and install thunar. Its only dependency is exo, which is really small.

greets

Chman · 2006-05-26 14:21:21

Thunar, definitly. Awesome file manager.

test1000 · 2006-05-26 17:48:30

xterm is best. oh and ok, i have to admit i use konqeror when browsing images and videos. xterm was a drag before i started using ion3 though. So tiring to resize and move windows all the time. Now i just use fullscreen witrh ion and two monitors!

xterm +tb -bg black -fg gray -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1 is what i use... any better?

Gullible Jones · 2006-05-26 20:00:46

Thunar is great, except that the current version in the XFCE-SVN repo is compiled without inotify support.

(Yes, Thunar does indeed support inotify as of right now.)

elasticdog · 2006-05-26 20:32:34

I will also vote for Thunar. A lot of people like Rox filer, but I used it for months and never really liked it. Thunar does what it is supposed to, and it does it well.

phildg · 2006-05-26 20:40:51

Xfe is another worth looking at.

ScriptDevil · 2006-05-27 03:42:58

thnar is fine but rox(which i use) and mc are faster and lighter and my recommend

ScriptDevil · 2006-05-27 03:43:48

rox is like arch-> u have the power to set run action ...

T-Dawg · 2006-05-27 08:13:52

It may have been benificial to do a forum search. We had a huge thread about this not too long ago:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … le+manager

z4ziggy · 2006-05-27 09:16:46

pcman : An extremely fast and lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing and user-friendly interface. (looks like thunar but with tabs).
url: http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/
pkgbuild: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pcman … m/PKGBUILD

civ247 · 2006-05-27 10:41:01

Penguin wrote:

It may have been benificial to do a forum search. We had a huge thread about this not too long ago:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … le+manager

Sorry about that, to be honest it never occured to me to search for something like that.

Given the overwhelming vote of confidence im definitely going to try thunar. I tried rox before and i didnt really like it.

Im definitely trying pcman as well.

Thanks for the response!

mac57 · 2006-06-04 22:00:58

z4ziggy, I just posted on this very topic in another forum! I have been trying to get PCManFM to run, but it moans about needing gamin and then dies. Have you managed to get it to work? Did you need to modify it somehow to remove the dependency on gamin, or did you somehow acquire gamin? I see that it is in our testing lib but I can't seem to convince pacman to see it. I am guessing I need to add the testing lib to my pacman config, but am not sure what magic line needs to be added. Can you help?

T-Dawg · 2006-06-04 22:02:35

mac57 wrote:

z4ziggy, I just posted on this very topic in another forum! I have been trying to get PCManFM to run, but it moans about needing gamin and then dies. Have you managed to get it to work? Did you need to modify it somehow to remove the dependency on gamin, or did you somehow acquire gamin? I see that it is in our testing lib but I can't seem to convince pacman to see it. I am guessing I need to add the testing lib to my pacman config, but am not sure what magic line needs to be added. Can you help?

please don't cross post:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=169092#169092

whargoul · 2006-06-04 22:11:38

z4ziggy wrote:

pcman : An extremely fast and lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing and user-friendly interface. (looks like thunar but with tabs).
url: http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/
pkgbuild: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pcman … m/PKGBUILD

Uh, looks great.

Gullible Jones · 2006-06-05 01:24:36

Yes it does... Can it be compiled to directly support inotify though?

(OT, but I do actually wonder if Gamin wasn't the right way to go. Wouldn't it be better to have a library that would interface with applications and use kevent or inotify rather than having applications support both directly?)

stavrosg · 2006-06-05 20:25:46

Gullible Jones wrote:

Yes it does... Can it be compiled to directly support inotify though?
(OT, but I do actually wonder if Gamin wasn't the right way to go. Wouldn't it be better to have a library that would interface with applications and use kevent or inotify rather than having applications support both directly?)

Continuing the off-topic:
Yes, that's the way I suuposed we would go - have a library abstract the interfaces, and be easily extendable to whatever the kernel interface-du-jur would be, even supporting the various mechanisms provided by linux and the other *nix kernels that float around.
Unfortuantely, it seems that gamin was something thrown together just to ship something less resource-greedy than fam for the Ubuntu 5.10 release and nothing more.

Mr Green · 2006-06-05 20:29:58

pcmanfm light & fast.....

z4ziggy · 2006-06-05 23:06:09

well, i dont have this "gamin" installed, and pcman runs smoothly on my system (i just tested it... i dont use it anylonger since i switched back to kde). i know answering "it works fine here" doesnt help much, but thats all i have...
have u tried compiling it using the PKGBUILD from the aur? thats all i did anyway.

gluck.

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