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vcmota
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 Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:24 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Lightweight alternative for PCManFM? |
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I have been using PCManFM for a long time, it is a truly lightweight file manager that has everything I really need. However it has been masked a few weeks ago for being unmaintained, and I really hate to have masked packages on my systems. I looked at the "suggested applications" page for gentoo, but all other file managers there seems to be true monsters in comparison with PCManFM. Since I don't use file managers that often and my need is only for the basic functionality, I would love a lightweight alternative with few or no dependencies at all. Any suggestion/recommendation?
Thank you all for your attention.
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I had swapped to spacefm a while back, I believe it started as a fork of pcmanfm
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| Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Only the stable version is masked. But it remains true that it's unmaintained, but jumping to ~unstable will give you more time with it. |
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fedeliallalinea
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And something like console file manager (app-misc/ranger)?
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why not pcmanfm-qt
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app-misc/worker is my choice since 2009. It is very simple, lightweight and also actively developed.
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figueroa
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A agree with the question, "Why not pcmanfm-qt?"
| Code: | $ emerge -pv pcmanfm-qt
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] x11-libs/libfm-qt-0.16.0:0/7::gentoo 341 KiB
[ebuild N ] x11-misc/pcmanfm-qt-0.16.0::gentoo 270 KiB
Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 610 KiB |
That would seem reasonable to me. Your mileage will vary depending on what other dependencies you have already installed.
For me, at this point, I've keyworded all of the LXDE packages in order to use gtk+3. What I actually use is openbox with pmanfm managing the desktop and lxpanel. The portions that I use work fine. I'm hoping that a maintainer for the LXDE packages comes forward. I'm not up to doing it myself. I would be a terrible maintainer.
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vcmota
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| Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, everybody. Thank you all for your reply. I already installed most of those packages and I am testing to see which one I like more. After the suggestion of ranger by fedeliallalinea I found out about vifm, and, since I love vim, I am giving it a try also.
Thank you all again! |
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| Code: | ~ $ emerge -pv pcmanfm-qt
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] dev-util/lxqt-build-tools-0.8.0::gentoo 25 KiB
[ebuild N ] dev-qt/qtdbus-5.15.2:5/5.15::gentoo USE="-debug -test" 0 KiB
[ebuild N ] x11-libs/libfm-qt-0.16.0:0/7::gentoo 341 KiB
[ebuild N ] x11-misc/pcmanfm-qt-0.16.0::gentoo 270 KiB
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Ugh! dbus again! |
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