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moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: File Managers

I'm also one of the weirdos.
I use bash/coreutilus, mc and thunar/nautilus....depending on the task and/or mood

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Trent

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From: Baltimore, MD (US)

Registered: 2009-04-16

Posts: 990

Re: File Managers

I will admit rox took two tries, though, as it's very strange to use for someone who expects the application to *stay still*. I can't remember why I gave it a second look, but I'm glad I did.

Haha, yes, that took some getting used to.  Now, though, with a tiling window manager, I don't have to worry about it.

chilebiker

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 161

Re: File Managers

I'm a huge fan of emelFM2. It takes quite a while to configure tough, but once you've done it to your liking it's just awesome, especially the keybindings and the plugins...

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jcolinzheng

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From: Cambridge, MA

Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 50

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Re: File Managers

Vifm is neat, but comparison to MC, is too simplistic, doesn't handle (compressed) archive and remote folders, and lacks support for extension.  Still the best file manager is a well configured MC with utf-8 patch.

vifm can handle archives or any filetype any way you want it to, you just have to set it up in the vifmrc.
for example can list contents or extract a tar.gz with.
FILETYPE=Archive=tar.gz,tgz=tar -tzf %f | less,tar -zxvf %f

By "support for archive", I of course mean mounting the archive as a virtual file system.  Not just listing its content.

scrawler

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Registered: 2005-06-07

Posts: 318

Re: File Managers

I like rox for it's panels and its send-to menu. I wouldn't want to do without it.

...and I said pretty much the same thing in the thread refered to above. :-)  At least I'm consistent.

Last edited by scrawler (2009-09-02 14:13:29)

SpeedVin

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 955

Re: File Managers

From now I use dmenfm as my main fm iwth bash and coreutils utilities
Dmenfm is so simple , you must try it

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doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

Posts: 403

Re: File Managers

PCmanFM is amazing, although in KDE (which I'm using right now) Dolphin is the best choice.

rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 664

Re: File Managers

The feature i like about Thunar and which is missing in PCmanfm afaik is 'custom actions' to call  shellscripts from the context menu.

Last edited by rwd (2009-09-02 07:09:09)