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#1 2006-05-26 11:43:59

civ247
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Looking for a new file manager

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!

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#2 2006-05-26 12:11:16

rezza
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

rox
thunar
gentoo
emelfm

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#3 2006-05-26 12:14:14

mpie
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

bscommander

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#4 2006-05-26 12:14:45

ujjwal
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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.

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#5 2006-05-26 12:20:14

IsSuE
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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

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#6 2006-05-26 14:21:21

Chman
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

Thunar, definitly. Awesome file manager.

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#7 2006-05-26 17:48:30

test1000
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

xterm is best. smile 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! smile

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? smile


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#8 2006-05-26 20:00:46

Gullible Jones
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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.)

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#9 2006-05-26 20:32:34

elasticdog
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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.

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#10 2006-05-26 20:40:51

phildg
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

Xfe is another worth looking at.

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#11 2006-05-27 03:42:58

ScriptDevil
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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


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#12 2006-05-27 03:43:48

ScriptDevil
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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


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#13 2006-05-27 08:13:52

T-Dawg
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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

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#14 2006-05-27 09:16:46

z4ziggy
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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

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#15 2006-05-27 10:41:01

civ247
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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!

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#16 2006-06-04 22:00:58

mac57
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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?


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#17 2006-06-04 22:02:35

T-Dawg
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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

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#18 2006-06-04 22:11:38

whargoul
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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.


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#19 2006-06-05 01:24:36

Gullible Jones
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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?)

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#20 2006-06-05 20:25:46

stavrosg
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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.  roll

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#21 2006-06-05 20:29:58

Mr Green
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

pcmanfm light & fast.....


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#22 2006-06-05 23:06:09

z4ziggy
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Re: Looking for a new file manager

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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