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*NIX: Favorite GUI File Managers?
ewemoa:
One dual-pane alternative for Gnome/Cinnamon/MATE users is sunflower-fm. I have it installed for those times when dual-pane is the best way to go.
-40hz (March 19, 2014, 01:04 AM)
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Their project page mentions:
Currently this project is still in its early alpha stage.
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...but it at least looks pleasant :)
One thing really nice is that Sunflower has an embedded system terminal you can open in a tab within the file manager.
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That does sound nice -- I wonder if at some point they'll go for displaying in the same tab as a file / directory listing with synchronizing the current directory.
40hz:
I wonder if at some point they'll go for displaying in the same tab as a file / directory listing with synchronizing the current directory.
-ewemoa (March 19, 2014, 01:51 AM)
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That would be handy. Maybe somebody could suggest it? They devs are on Google+ here.
I'd do it myself - except 40hz doesn't do Google+ for reasons not worth cluttering up this thread getting into. ;) 8)
ewemoa:
I don't do Google+ either.
My sense is that the idea is likely to come up at some point if it hasn't already :)
ewemoa:
Sunflower is surviving here :)
Some nice points:
* Handy to use the "Command entry" field to start an HTTP daemon (e.g. mongoose) for quickly making some files available.
* Somehow the candidates that come up for "Open with" are more to my liking than with the analogous in SpaceFM.
* Breadcrumb navigation is unobtrusive - works by clicking on an appropriate portion of a displayed path.
Some puzzlement:
* Failed to locate a way to change the currently showing directory via editing a text field representing a path. - Clicking on the folder icon next to the path seems to help :)
* Control-selecting something after some row is already highlighted doesn't appear to include the already-highlighted row in the ultimate selection.
Appear to be using 0.1a (58), FWIW.
tosim:
I've used several of those mentioned here, but finally settled on DoubleCommander. I particularly like that it lets me change the attributes of files and folders. .
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