What does everyone use for a file manager

BroX · 06-10-2011, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by gorillus

I use ranger (python-ranger) and I love it! There is no other fm which makes working so fast and comfotable.

Thanks for the tip!

trademark91 · 06-10-2011, 10:50 PM

ive been looking for a file manager that has drag and drop capability with ark, but that isnt konqueror/dolphin. anyone have any suggestions? thunar and xfe dont have that feature, and i dont want to test a thousand file managers until i find one. does anyone use one currently that they know works this way?

Nylex · 06-11-2011, 06:03 AM

I just use the command line.

Plutonium · 06-11-2011, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by psionl0

I use thunar myself. It is fast and easy to use.

Of course, to get the icons on it use need to create the file $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 and add the line:

Code:

gtk-icon-theme-name = "Tango"

to the file.

Thank you so much!
And i use thunar..

jostber · 06-11-2011, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by BroX

Thanks for the tip!

I go for ranger too. Great console file manager. I also use muCommander if in GUI mode.

Gerard Lally · 06-11-2011, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by trademark91

ive been looking for a file manager that has drag and drop capability with ark, but that isnt konqueror/dolphin. anyone have any suggestions? thunar and xfe dont have that feature, and i dont want to test a thousand file managers until i find one. does anyone use one currently that they know works this way?

It's a long time since I tried Krusader and I don't have KDE libs installed to try it now. Have you tried it? It can be extended with compression-extraction plugins but I'm not sure how it fits with Ark. Either way it's an excellent file manager, in my opinion the best there is on BSD/GNU-Linux. Just a shame it is dependent on KDE libs.

dive · 06-11-2011, 01:59 PM

Just a quick note to you ranger users: I submitted an update on slackbuilds.org and changed the name from python-ranger to just ranger, which seems more sensible to me.

gorillus · 06-11-2011, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by dive

Just a quick note to you ranger users: I submitted an update on slackbuilds.org and changed the name from python-ranger to just ranger, which seems more sensible to me.

Thanks for the notification!

xhack · 06-11-2011, 11:18 PM

File manager? I guess that would be xterm and zsh for me

trademark91 · 06-11-2011, 11:39 PM

i tested out xarchiver from slackbuilds, not only does that have drag/drop with thunar, but it has a plugin for the two that you can build as well! i now use thunar as my file manager, and am a few steps closer to moving entirely away from big applications