What does everyone use for a file manager

koen plessers · 03-28-2011, 12:23 PM

Midnight Commander

Started with Norton Commander 25 years ago, MC reminds me of my younger days :-)

rkfb · 03-28-2011, 12:36 PM

My computer.

:-)

the_penguinator · 03-28-2011, 01:06 PM

thunar, mc, bash
depends on my mood and what I've got up

arubin · 03-28-2011, 04:00 PM

worker

gauchao · 03-28-2011, 04:35 PM

Midnight Commander

dive · 03-28-2011, 09:11 PM

I don't want to sidetrack the topic but of those mentioned which gui ones do have options for removable media and network mounts besides dolphin?

I'd like to try and alternative to dolphin but so far haven't found anything suitable.

tacticalbread · 03-28-2011, 09:14 PM

most of the time, I just use zsh for any file managing, but for graphical file managing I use Thunar.

brixtoncalling · 03-28-2011, 09:14 PM

dive - pcmanfm does, though you might need ponce's slackbuild. There was a thread on LQ about it.

foodown · 03-28-2011, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by dive

I don't want to sidetrack the topic but of those mentioned which gui ones do have options for removable media and network mounts besides dolphin?

I'd like to try and alternative to dolphin but so far haven't found anything suitable.

Thunar does this.

I'd highly recommend Rob Workman's Xfce 4.8 packages. Especially on a -current machine (so, I guess 13.37), it's quite nice. All of the features we are discussing seem a little more "crisp" than in 4.6.

Thunar's hardware automounting stuff in 4.8 uses udev instead of hal ... I'm guessing that this is the direction that -current will take with other things, post-release.

slakmagik · 03-28-2011, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by dive

I don't want to sidetrack the topic but of those mentioned which gui ones do have options for removable media and network mounts besides dolphin?

I'd like to try and alternative to dolphin but so far haven't found anything suitable.

What does 'options for removable media' mean? I just edit fstab and then, when I click on a directory icon that is a mountpoint in rox, it mounts. When I leave it, it unmounts. Otherwise, I just type '(u)mount device'. But I guess that isn't what you mean?

Einars · 03-28-2011, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

worker

+1
Very lightweight and exceptionally configurable.

dive · 03-29-2011, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by slakmagik

What does 'options for removable media' mean? I just edit fstab and then, when I click on a directory icon that is a mountpoint in rox, it mounts. When I leave it, it unmounts. Otherwise, I just type '(u)mount device'. But I guess that isn't what you mean?

That would be ok for me. I'll have a look at rox. Some sort of network scanning would be good too: http://www.dawoodfall.net/sshots/shot-7732956943.gif for example.

slakmagik · 03-29-2011, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by dive

That would be ok for me. I'll have a look at rox. Some sort of network scanning would be good too: http://www.dawoodfall.net/sshots/shot-7732956943.gif for example.

Okay, I won't say rox can't do that, but I doubt it. It could mount shares or whatever, but it pretty much follows the 'real' (or usual abstraction layer of the) filesystem.

However, there's stuff that can go with rox(-filer) like rox-samba. It or something like it may be useful. (I don't use the rest of the rox 'desktop' or appdirs or zeroinstall or any of the other weirdness about rox, so I dunno, but good luck.)

harryhaller · 03-29-2011, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by koen plessers

Midnight Commander

Started with Norton Commander 25 years ago, MC reminds me of my younger days :-)

Same here.

agi93 · 03-31-2011, 11:52 AM

Usually, I just use terminal commands (ls, cp, mv, rm, chmod, etc.) and that works perfectly fine. It's the method I would recommend.

If you are dead set on using a graphical file manager, then Thunar is very nice. It has a clean interface, is fast, and works extremely well.