What File Managers are there?

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Rwilson · Post by **Rwilson** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:49 am

I ask this question due to the fact that instead of running KDE or Gnome, I'm using WindowMaker, which has left me Filemanager-less. Just in case I'm using the wrong word for it, I'm referring to programs of the same nature as the Gnome's Nautilus and KDE's Konqueror. All help appreciated!

404NF · Post by **404NF** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:09 am

You can still use the gnome or kde file managers. I use mc in an xterm, with icewm. Very light weight, and fast, especially good for a slow ass box like mine.

Insanity5902 · Post by **Insanity5902** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:13 am

I am using openbox and ls

actualy for a gui file manager I use nautilus. I had to load a bunch of the gnome libs for a couple of programs so I just use it. Be sure to use it with the option --no-desktop otherswise it starts the gnome desktop.

kongit · Post by **kongit** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:24 am

rox is very nice.

Mongrol · Post by **Mongrol** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 7:46 am

I'll second Rox. It's a bit ugly to start with but once its themed and you learn its methods its damn fast and nice to use.

provicemo · Post by **provicemo** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:04 am

Rox is very good, but not if your looking for something 'powerful'

Hazzl · Post by **Hazzl** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 12:24 pm

Rox is very good, but not if your looking for something 'powerful'

Actually, I find that I can do anything with ROX that I would want to do with a file manager. What feature are you thinking of that it would be missing? ROX is very tunable and thus quite powerful.

cbr · Post by **cbr** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 12:37 pm

Hazzl wrote:
Rox is very good, but not if your looking for something 'powerful'
Actually, I find that I can do anything with ROX that I would want to do with a file manager. What feature are you thinking of that it would be missing? ROX is very tunable and thus quite powerful.

Folder tree is missing for example.

VoVaN · Post by **VoVaN** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 2:51 pm

Another vote for ROX as GUI, for the rest I'm using Midnight Commander from http://mc.linuxinside.com/cgi-bin/dir.cgi ( IMHO much better and takes much less memory

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svyatogor · Post by **svyatogor** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:40 pm

I used ROX for a while and then switched back to MC, cause rox doesn't like non UTF locales

I wich there were something like nautilus, which wouldn't need all those gnome (or kde) libs.

Rwilson · Post by **Rwilson** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:07 am

All good info! Thanks all. But one question. Has anyone here used the Gentoo file manager? Its right here.

scronkey · Post by **scronkey** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:31 am

Yepper!

Gentoo is what I've been using for quite a while now...
It took a little to get used to, but it's neat, quick and heavily customizable.

Just don't get confused with the obvious clash of name

Post by **pjp** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:34 pm

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=3151