Default apps on slackware, what do you think?

GazL · 06-29-2012, 11:52 AM

I do most my stuff on the command line, however I find thunar useful for two things,
1) quickly mounting usb-sticks/removable media from it's side bar
2) Navigating directories full of pictures/photos where the filename isn't always that useful and the thumbnails really come in handy.

Occasionally I also use mc.

SCerovec · 06-30-2012, 06:36 AM

Yep,
thumbs up for mc:
no way better to copy a plentitude of files (aka backup) there and forth (locally or lan/wan) with possible hick-ups (dialogs with "no, no to all , yes, yes to all, cancel")
where there a XFCE vesion for mc, i would strongly promote it, for KDE/Qt there seems to be krusader, I would love to see it on OEM slackware though (room in extra?).

gauchao · 07-01-2012, 07:53 AM

I agree with SCerovec. MC is absolutely necessary. Krusader is a great file manager under X, but you can always install it from SlackBuilds.

ponce · 07-01-2012, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GazL

I couldn't get either your 0.7.2 slackbuilds.org build or the 0.8.1 source to build on my current64 + system.

the latest slackbuild pushed this morning builds fine on 64-current here.

if you still have that linking problem, try expliciting LDFLAGS="-ldl" (sometimes gcc-4.7.x needs it, but here seems not).

GazL · 07-01-2012, 11:00 AM

Thanks ponce. (& Chess)

That new one builds just fine here too.

Oh, FYI. the emelfm2.slackbuild script is missing executable permissions in the slackbuilds tar file.

Right, now to check it out.

ttk · 07-02-2012, 11:59 PM

GazL, SCerovec: Thank you :-) that does make sense, especially the thumbnails proving handy for looking through masses of images.

-- TTK

SCerovec · 07-04-2012, 03:35 AM

FWIW there seems to be the gentoo filemanager for GTK based X DE, but i haven't used it much (yet)...