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Best File Managers To Use on Porteus
Posted: 08 Oct 2014, 12:45
by jimwg
Greetings!
You guys' advice has always pulled through for me and though there are lots of opinions out there on what app is best, I value your takes on it here. Not exactly Midnight Commander, but I'm seeking a directory file manager which can display the directories of two different drives in parallel columns and sort by what files are different and allow you to copy such files into the opposite column. Which would you use with Porteus?
Thanks for any hints!
Jim in NYC
Re: Best File Managers To Use on Porteus
Posted: 08 Oct 2014, 13:54
by Bogomips
Emelfm exactly suits your requiremments. Been using it on DSL.
pkgs.orgCode: Select all
emelfm2-0.8.0-i486-3sl.txz
Description
emelfm2 - GTK2+ File Manager
Distribution: Slackware 13.37
Repository: Slacky i486
Package name: emelfm2
Package version: 0.8.0
Package architecture: i486
Package type: txz
Installed size: 1,38 MB
Download size: 489,00 KB
Binary package: emelfm2-0.8.0-i486-3sl.txz
Source package: unknown
emelFM2 is a file manager that implements the popular two-pane design. It features a simple GTK2+ interface, a flexible filetyping scheme, and a built-in command line for executing commands without opening an xterm.
EDIT: Tried a quick download just now. There remain dependencies to chase up.
Or else ask usm
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root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -s emelfm
Nothing was found in Slackware but i found this in slackbuilds.
NAME : emelfm2
CATEG: system
DESC :
VERS : 0.8.1
Would you like to attempt to build this from source? [y/n]
Re: Best File Managers To Use on Porteus
Posted: 08 Oct 2014, 19:34
by brokenman
spacefm is a very customizeable and complete option.
Re: Best File Managers To Use on Porteus
Posted: 08 Oct 2014, 21:15
by tome
customized spacefm or double commander (archive plugins)
Re: Best File Managers To Use on Porteus
Posted: 09 Oct 2014, 01:01
by Ed_P
brokenman wrote:spacefm is a very customizeable and complete option.
But spaceFM is going to be dropped in the next release according to this:
Re: Best File Managers To Use on Porteus
Posted: 09 Oct 2014, 06:20
by fanthom
correct - i'm going to use pcmanfm-qt in LxQT desktop.
Re: Best File Managers To Use on Porteus
Posted: 09 Oct 2014, 11:15
by Bogomips
brokenman wrote:spacefm is a very customizeable and complete option.
Been using spaceFM in preference to Dolphin for the bookmarking, but don't find it that easy to use, as opposed to emelFM.
Re: Best File Managers To Use on Porteus
Posted: 09 Oct 2014, 13:45
by brokenman
But spaceFM is going to be dropped in the next release according to this:
@Ed_P
jimwg's question simply asked about useful file managers that could be used under porteus. Nothing to do with next release and default file manager.
@Bogomips
Yes it is not for everybody but still worth a look.
Re: Best File Managers To Use on Porteus
Posted: 10 Nov 2014, 19:04
by jimwg
Thanks all! I'm checking out spacem.
Jim in NYC
Re: Best File Managers To Use on Porteus
Posted: 12 Nov 2014, 23:06
by Iga007
Would anybody create xzm package from Double commander?
I've tried the usm -s double commander - nothing found...
Re: Best File Managers To Use on Porteus
Posted: 08 Feb 2015, 21:53
by jimwg
Greetings:
I can't tell how, but what dependencies do I have to look for to turn Gnome Commander into a module?
Thanks four any hint!
Jim in NYC
Re: Best File Managers To Use on Porteus
Posted: 09 Feb 2015, 01:04
by francois
@iga007:
So you are on lxde. What version of porteus do you have?
Are you on 32 or 64 bit architecture?
The gtk 32 bit version for gtk2 is here (from pkgs.org):
http://pkgs.org/debian-jessie/debian-ma ... /download/
The gtk 64 bit version for gtk2 is here(from pkgs.org) :
http://pkgs.org/debian-jessie/debian-ma ... /download/
This is a debian package. Right click on it, and use deb2xzm to transform it into a porteus module. It seems to work well under xfce. It should be good in lxde.
To start doublecmd file manager you have to use the /usr/lib/doublecmd/doublecmd command in terminal mode. You can create a .desktop file to start it from the lxde panel menu. See:
https://developer.gnome.org/integration ... es.html.en
If you need some help, just ask for it.
