tux commander seem to need some obviously strange for me package - kylix3 and some pascal I don't know what but with Fedora it's tricky when it's not rpm but if you know some alternative or a working copy of the above mentions

Have you tried mc (midnight commander)?

not good enough, can't copy to clipboard and it's a why to when u have the gui way

My favorite dual-pane is emelfm but the gentoo file manager is also good. Both are C/GTK (I think gentoo is). Look for the emelfm-elm version if you want. There's an emelfm2 that's gtk2 but kinda gets carried away with the interface and loses emelfm's no-crap qualities. Worker's kinda weird but sneakily powerful. Many others in lesser stages of quality or development.

Not sure what you want to 'copy to clipboard', though - but just shift-drag on an xterm running mc.

I think the site even provides binaries you can install to $HOME if you're comfortable with that and don't want to mess with rpms or compile.

-- Sorry - tired and pissed off about an utterly *incompetent* Super Bowl, so not making a lot of sense. The last paragraph refers to tux commander.

great, that's what I needed, because I don't know what distro u use bit I tried worker and tuxcmd so far and had some strange errors so you've been very helpful man I owe u one also I didn't know about shilf + drag coz on context menu with right click in mc only shows paste and not copy to be able to vice versa.. also why use this strange F5 behaviour when u have common sense clipboard

GPM adds mouse support to text-based Linux applications such as the Midnight Commander. It also allows mouse-based console cut-and-paste operations, and includes support for pop-up menus on the console.

I can't copy from opened file in MC? it's in gray the option from context menu just paste applicable, any workaround?

Right click on the file and see if it'll let you open with Gedit or something else.

what to open file with gedit from mc in console?

Let me see if I understand what youre looking for: an alternative to nautilus or konqueror that has 2 browsing panels, right? I so, give a try to krusader, totally rules.

10x I never heard it, although I tried so many but stupid alts