which file manager you use?

Youssef Makki bugzilla at sympatico.ca
Fri Feb 6 02:45:19 UTC 2004


Add this to the list, Velocity. Looks like a shaved down version of
Nautilus, and you can tell by how long it takes to load and its speed in
general. It's in
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.unstable/
Tho my personal favorite still remains gentoo.


On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 20:38, dsyates wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:34:29AM -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> > >Why do you use xterms?
> > 
> > Simple.
> > 
> > When moving, editing or changing files around, I open an xterm session
> > and 'cd' into the directory that I am working with.  Open another 
> > xterm session and 'cd' into another directory.
> > 
> > ls gives me a listing and then I can do what I want.  Moving files 
> > around is as easy as mv xxx.file to /location/.  Renaming files is as 
> > easy as  mv  xxx.file yyy.file
> 
> It's been said, the main advantage of running a a windowing environment
> is the ability of having multiple xterms visible at the same time. That
> is the same reason I like and I use emelfm2 as my file manager. IMHO,
> it's the best thing since sliced bread! Very configurable, built in
> command line/xterm, and can open xterms at will from anywhere. Plus it
> has the classic 2 pane gui. Check it out.
> http://dasui.prima.de/e2wiki/emelFM2. Something for everyone in this gem
> of a program.





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