topic title: File Manager

What file manager do you use?

rox
14
37%
xfe
4
11%
thunar
5
13%
pcmanfm
6
16%
other
9
24%
 
Total votes: 38
 
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#16
As there are some new users around, I thought I'd bump this thread.
Comments welcome.

I still use rox-filer most of the time, though I use pcmanfm for mounting usb devices (rox seemed to have stopped working) and mc when out of X.
Posts: 58
wingevil
Joined: 18 Nov 2008
#17
pcmanfm & mc
Posts: 200
lagopus
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
#18
I use... the command line

mostly: where the hell did I put this document two months ago:

$ find /home/yves -name \*maybe-this-name\*

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Posts: 253
mariel77
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
#19
I still mostly use rox. I installed thunar to use for mounting usb, but pcmanfm works just as well since the upgrade to final.
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masinick
Joined: 26 Apr 2008
#20
I do not use file managers all that often. When I do, it is usually when I am on a KDE based system, so I probably use Konqueror more than any other file manager, though I probably use Thunar next most often, since I probably use XFCE based systems next most often.

As far as my usage with antiX, when I am using antiX, my usage patterns rarely even involve the use of a file manager at all. Probably ninety percent of my file manipulation on antiX has to do with updating config files, and the Control Center usually drops me directly into a multi-tabbed instance of Geany to edit the configurations. Once in a while, I will copy some scripts to antiX from one of my other systems, but I do not have to resort to the use of a file manager to manage them. If I do, I would, more than likely, bring in the all powerful GNU Emacs and use its"dired" capabilities to manage files. I am much more likely to use dired than a file manager.

I might use a file manager to invoke a CD or DVD burning program, but again, that is most likely to happen when I am running a KDE based system, in which case Konqueror would be the file manager and k3b would be the burner app.

I use antiX primarily when I am going to be doing Web browsing and Email access and very little else. I find antiX PERFECT for such occasions.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#21
Voted Thunar since most of my WM in other distros are XFCE. I use pcmanfm in Icewm and fluxbox using Anti though.
Posts: 38
banshee
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
#22
i use xfe, i think konqueror is a good filemanager too. but as i don`t use the filemanager that often, i`m sticking with xfe for now.
Posts: 127
KrunchTime
Joined: 05 Dec 2014
#23
I use the following on a weekly rotating basis:
  • double commander
  • pcmanfm
  • spacefm
Posts: 850
fatmac
Joined: 26 Jul 2012
#24
Depends on which is installed with the distro in use - but if I choose one to install it is nearly always mc, with vifm occassionally.
Posts: 1,139
masinick
Joined: 26 Apr 2008
#25
I've been using the MX-14 distribution quite a lot lately. That means that I may be using Thunar on occasion! __{{emoticon}}__