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Yesterday i ran into SpaceFM, a fork of PCManFM, the file manager that comes by default on desktops LXDE and that in addition to being super light, it incorporates several very interesting improvements. |
What's new Old man?
- Tabs. That is something the Nautilus / Caja has but the Thunar will never get. I know this because the XFCE developers think they look horrible. The SpaceFM not only has the tabs implemented, but it also has a bar with up to 4 panels (as seen in the screenshot) and each one with its tabs and side bars.
- Side bars. There are 3 types, a directory tree, a set of shortcuts (which is what we usually see in our File Managers) and the set of connected devices (such as hard drives, both internal and removable)
- Integration with Bash. You can open a terminal both as a common user or as a root user (Thunar only allows it as a common user). Besides that you can open the folder as root user too. You can also run commands on it.
- Plugin installation such as joining PDFs, video converter, GPG tools, etc.
- Others. Integrated file search, menu and entry customization, icon customization, quick change of file permissions.
Installation
In Ubuntu and derivatives:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa: upubuntu-com / ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install spacefm
In Arch and derivatives:
yaourt -S spacefm-git
The other distributions have an installer . For more details, I suggest reading the project's wiki.