Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:41:35 -0500

>> Please recommend a file manager. I need a good one to make my wife
>> happy. We used to settle with the the file manager that comes default
>> with Gnome, but now that one can't rename files any more (it actually
>> can initially, but stop responding to keyboard very soon).

> Krusader with a GUI and MC with a TUI

Since he's running GNOME, Krusader might not be the best fm for him to use.

$ apt-cache search file manager | grep fm | sort
dfm - Desktop-File-Manager for X11
emelfm - file manager for X/gtk
lfm - a simple but powerful file manager for the UNIX console
pcmanfm - extramly fast and lightweight file manager for X Window
pcmanfm-fam - GPL'd lightweight file manager for X Window
pfm - a terminal-based file manager written in Perl, based on MS-DOS PFM.COM
vifm - a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings
xffm4 - File manager for the Xfce4 desktop environment
xffm4-icons - Icons for xffm4, the FM of XFce4
xfm - X file and application manager

Try pcmanfm first, since it's GTK 2.0, and then emelfm. Lastly xfm if you want to see the *cutting* *edge* from 1998 (and still darned useful, especially if you're box has 64MB RAM and is running fvwm).

Ron Johnson

>> try xfe, windows explorer clone.

> I like rox-filer

$ apt-cache search Thunar
thunar-archive-plugin - Archive plugin for Thunar file manager
thunar-media-tags-plugin - Media tags plugin for Thunar file manager
libthunar-vfs-1-2 - VFS abstraction used in thunar
libthunar-vfs-1-dev - Development files for libthunar-vfs
thunar - File Manager for Xfce