Good file-manager for OpenBox? (with icons)

xnooby2 · 2007-08-20 03:33:40

I tried rox with the magickthumbnails and videothumbmails, but havent got it working yet.

I am now trying thunar, but it has dull generic icons. Everything looks like a piece of paper. I'm sure it'd look good if I was running XFCE.

Is there a standard/common file-manager for use with openbox? Preferably one with icons for different file-types.

thayer · 2007-08-20 06:07:07

Thunar (you can change the icons you know?
Rox
midnight commander (MC)
Nautilus

... to name but a few. Thunar is my favourite for Openbox sessions

droog · 2007-08-20 07:51:24

I like rox way better than thunar, but you can change the icon theme in thunar by extracting a gnome icon theme to ~/.icons then adding gtk-icon-theme-name="area_04" to your ~/.gtkrc.mine
change "area_04" to whatever the icon theme name is.

drakosha · 2007-08-20 09:09:57

there's also pacmanfm

shen · 2007-08-21 13:57:43

My personal favorite is Emelfm2. Simple and easy to config and theme via gtk+

finferflu · 2007-08-21 15:09:34

drakosha wrote:

there's also pacmanfm

Actually it's spelled pcmanfm, otherwise you won't find it in the repos
It's a very cool file manager, very similar to thunar, but lighter and it's also able to manage the desktop. You should definitely give it a shot

xnooby2 · 2007-08-21 15:11:49

shen wrote:

My personal favorite is Emelfm2. Simple and easy to config and theme via gtk+

For some reason I thought this one was abandonware, but it looks up to date on their website. i will try it, thanks!

ozar · 2007-08-21 15:18:26

...another vote for Rox. It takes a few days to get used to it but it's awesome once you do.

shen · 2007-08-21 15:42:58

xnooby2 wrote:

shen wrote:
My personal favorite is Emelfm2. Simple and easy to config and theme via gtk+
For some reason I thought this one was abandonware, but it looks up to date on their website. i will try it, thanks!

There use to be emelfm it was gtk1 and was abandoned for EmelFM2 which is gtk2.. It may not have as active a dev cycle as some of the others but it's rock solid and lite weight. Has pretty much all the features you need at least for me anyways.

lang2 · 2007-08-21 19:29:27

I've been looking around too and Rox is still my choice. Thunar is a bit heavier than rox and it doesn't have a good shell integration. I've tried pcmanfm too but it crashed below 1 min after I started it.

synthead · 2007-08-21 20:18:55

rox > *

Mardukas · 2007-08-21 23:59:35

Dolphin?

Don-DiZzLe · 2007-08-22 08:19:02

I'm using openbox+thunar+xfce4-panel+xfce4-terminal, excellent integration and speed. I've tried rox, but it's way to heavy on the 'drag-n-drop' feature for me, it doesn't even have a decent cut-n-paste option and the default theme is pretty ugly. When changing themes not all icons are changed with it. Something to do with MIME.

Anyways I'd suggest openbox+thunar+xfce4-panel+xfce4-terminal, excellent combo!

mac57 · 2007-08-22 15:10:26

IMHO, the combination of XFCE4 + Rox for the desktop is unbeatable. Very light, very fast, very attractive. I agree that the default icon theme for Rox is really quite ugly - they are not doing themselves any favors. But, load up the Rox-Noia theme and things suddenly look very, very nice. Rox is a great and fast desktop manager too, and very stable. I install XFCE4 and Rox, change the theme per the above, and then alter my xinitrc to disable the XFCE4 desktop and substitute Rox's desktop (called "pinboard" in Rox-speak) instead. It is a great combo.

mac57 · 2007-08-23 20:16:07

Here are two screenshots showing what you can do with XFCE4+Rox. Warning, these are full size 1600x1200, each file is about 400K, but they will give you an excellent idea of what a good looking desktop you can create with the XFCE4/Rox combination ... of course this is a personal taste issue. This desktop looks great to me, but it may not appeal to you. XFCE4/Rox doesn't just look good - it is lightening fast too. These screenshots are taken off of a machine of mine running Arch 2007.05 (Duke).

http://www.campbell-tx.net/Misc/screenshot-1.jpg

http://www.campbell-tx.net/Misc/screenshot-2.jpg

The first one shows the clean desktop with no folders open, and the second shows the same desktop with a Rox folder window open.

If there is interest, I can post a step by step detailed "recipe" for setting this up from scratch. Post back if you are interested.

EDIT: I had posted the detailed recipe for this last year in response to a question from a member back then. I just checked and it is still accessible. See this thread:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 24#p257124

Enjoy!

Last edited by mac57 (2007-08-23 20:21:47)

DonVla · 2007-08-24 13:01:43

hi,

i also recommend rox. fast and the drag'n'drop functionality is brilliant.
the default layout is truely ugly. but you can change everything.
i've changed the rox icons by hand:
in my ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine:

# rox-filer toolbar icons 

pixmap_path "~/.icons/panel_icons/icons_2"

style "normal" {
  stock["gtk-close"] = {{"close.png"}}
#  stock["gtk-close"] = {{"exit.png"}}
  stock["gtk-go-up"] = {{"1uparrow.png"}}
  stock["gtk-home"] = {{"gohome.png"}}
  stock["gtk-refresh"] = {{"redo.png"}}
  stock["gtk-zoom-in"] = {{"add.png"}}
  stock["gtk-zoom-fit"] = {{"stop.png"}}
  stock["gtk-jump-to"] = {{"bookmarks.png"}}
#  stock["gtk-sort-ascending"] = {{"bottom.png"}}
#  stock["gtk-help"] = {{"help-icon.png"}}
  stock["rox-show-hidden"] = {{"filter.png"}}
  stock["rox-show-details"] = {{"view_tree.png"}}
#  stock["rox-select"] = {{"select-icon.png"}}
}
widget "*" style "normal"

it's quite self explanatory .

vlad

ps:
and that's what it looks like:
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/2949 … 24aak4.png

Last edited by DonVla (2007-08-24 13:15:03)

mac57 · 2007-08-24 14:30:25

Hey DonVla, what is the program that is creating all that status information across the top of your screen? Looks fabulous, but doesn't look like Conky, the only other program I know that can do that sort of thing. What is it? I would love to try it out. Thanks.

shining · 2007-08-24 14:35:50

mac57 wrote:

Hey DonVla, what is the program that is creating all that status information across the top of your screen? Looks fabulous, but doesn't look like Conky, the only other program I know that can do that sort of thing. What is it? I would love to try it out. Thanks.

What does "looking like Conky" means ?
Can't you just change the font ?

Don-DiZzLe · 2007-08-24 14:45:55

DonVla wrote:

hi,
i also recommend rox. fast and the drag'n'drop functionality is brilliant.
the default layout is truely ugly. but you can change everything.
i've changed the rox icons by hand:
in my ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine:
# rox-filer toolbar icons 

pixmap_path "~/.icons/panel_icons/icons_2"

style "normal" {
  stock["gtk-close"] = {{"close.png"}}
#  stock["gtk-close"] = {{"exit.png"}}
  stock["gtk-go-up"] = {{"1uparrow.png"}}
  stock["gtk-home"] = {{"gohome.png"}}
  stock["gtk-refresh"] = {{"redo.png"}}
  stock["gtk-zoom-in"] = {{"add.png"}}
  stock["gtk-zoom-fit"] = {{"stop.png"}}
  stock["gtk-jump-to"] = {{"bookmarks.png"}}
#  stock["gtk-sort-ascending"] = {{"bottom.png"}}
#  stock["gtk-help"] = {{"help-icon.png"}}
  stock["rox-show-hidden"] = {{"filter.png"}}
  stock["rox-show-details"] = {{"view_tree.png"}}
#  stock["rox-select"] = {{"select-icon.png"}}
}
widget "*" style "normal"
it's quite self explanatory .
vlad
ps:
and that's what it looks like:
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/2949 … 24aak4.png

That's a pretty cool setup u got there. Is that conky in the top centre? If so, mind sharing your .conkyrc.

What Icon theme are u using? is that panel-thingy AWN?

Could u also elaborate this line < pixmap_path "~/.icons/panel_icons/icons_2" > ?

DonVla · 2007-08-24 19:00:36

hello,

it's all a little offtopic so i made a new thread:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36624
i hope this answer your questions.

vlad

onearm · 2007-08-25 07:34:57

Don-DiZzLe wrote:

I'm using openbox+thunar+xfce4-panel+xfce4-terminal, excellent integration and speed. I've tried rox, but it's way to heavy on the 'drag-n-drop' feature for me, it doesn't even have a decent cut-n-paste option and the default theme is pretty ugly. When changing themes not all icons are changed with it. Something to do with MIME.

That's what I use (apart from urxvt instead of xfce-terminal). As you said, rox it's too much drag-n-drop oriented, even if it's blazingly fast.
So, another vote for Thunar

Don-DiZzLe · 2007-08-25 22:32:29

pcmanfm seems pretty ok, but it doesnt have trashcan option.

ProzacR · 2007-08-25 23:11:45

XFE pwns:p
Small, fast and powerfull:
http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/index.php?page=screenshots
The best for *box.

xnooby2 · 2007-08-26 00:03:27

ProzacR wrote:

XFE pwns:p
Small, fast and powerfull:
http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/index.php?page=screenshots
The best for *box.

That looks pretty good, I never even heard of it before.

Is there a good menu bar? It looks like many people are using XFCE4's menubar with OpenBox.

ProzacR · 2007-08-26 14:18:33

I think you talk about panel or taskbar. Here list:

ROX Desktop 
Avant Window Navigator 
kooldock 
wbar 
idesk 
visibility 
lxpanel 
perlpanel 
[b]fbpanel[/b]  - Win Xp taskbar clone I think, but it can be vry customised
[b]pypanel[/b] - good for tuning and cute look but only main functions
Tint Task Manager 
[b]xfce4-panel[/b] 
Screenpager 
Screenlets 
gDesklets 
Super Karamba 
adesklets 
[b]conky[/b] - shows system data on real time
ObPager 
bbtools 
Oboinus

Mont interesting ones I marked in bold. Some of them I never tested.

Also you can use FluxBox not OpenBox, because it has simple clock and minimize line by default.

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