About an Alternate File Manager

[mr-roboto]

Look, PCManFM is quick to start, but that's about it.  It performs its job (as a basic file mgr) satisfactorily, but I'd like something with a little more potential, maybe even modifiable w/o having to rewrite the entire app.  Does such an animal exist ?  I tried Nautilus for a minute last Sunday, then quickly uninstalled it bec it appeared to cause new "strangeness" on my system, so I'm not sure what it can/can't do.  By strangeness:   had trouble remounting drives manually (from the cmd-line) and automatically via PCManFM.

I like the idea of Dolphin, but I gave up KDE several years ago and don't think I'm going back.  TIA....

[Just17]

There are a couple of alternatives in the repository ......  search for   file manager

[µT6]

you can use dolphin and not kde4, same as i use pcman and i don't have lxde

i did a small search on synaptic and found many

or too simple or too complex, not sire what you want to configure on them

[Yankee]

Gnome-Commander is my second choice.   
Might have a few extra dependencies but
not too many, as far as I can remember.

[gseaman]

I actually use konqueror, even on my lxde machine. There are just too many features that work more easily than any other file manager.

Galen

[Yankee]

Hi,

4-Pane is somewhat new and has alot of features that seem to work OK.
Compressing files always saves the absolute directory location so that was
the only weird thing I can remember.   S/B just the current directory or files
to be compressed, like file-roller.    Don't use it much, the others are certainly
adequate.

FF

[monsee]

I install, sometimes, a second file-manager, in my installations (including PCLinuxOS LXDE Edition). It is named Xfe, it's powerful and very user-friendly. You can have it easily using Synaptic. Non conflict at all between PCManFM and Xfe, I'm sure of it.

[mr-roboto]

I actually use konqueror, even on my lxde machine. There are just too many features that work more easily than any other file manager.

Galen

That appeals to me, at least for a trial.  Gnome-commander too.

I actually did GOOGLE this on Sunday, before even trying Nautilus.  Found a couple other possibilities but none that were in the repo.  Now that I have my config working well, I was hoping to keep it that way by asking what others are using successfully....

[Rudge]

I actually use konqueror, even on my lxde machine. There are just too many features that work more easily than any other file manager.

Galen

That appeals to me, at least for a trial.  Gnome-commander too.

I actually did GOOGLE this on Sunday, before even trying Nautilus.  Found a couple other possibilities but none that were in the repo.  Now that I have my config working well, I was hoping to keep it that way by asking what others are using successfully....

mr-roboto, unless I am wrong about this (often the case) the goal of our LXDE version is to offer a lightweight, fast, nimble, resource conservative ISO.

You can, or should be able to, install anything from the repos that you like at the expense of resources.

Keep in mind however that some of the KDE applications have dependencies that go so deep, you might as well be running KDE.

You might be better off looking at the "Gnome" offerings for LXDE.

(I think I already said,,, I could be wrong) 

[gseaman]

I am running lxde on an old laptop with 512mb ram and 1.2ghz single core intel processor. There is a cost to the disk space to use konqueror, but there is no significant performance penalty, except that it takes a few more seconds to start it the first time. (I also use kwrite and konsole). I tried to get used to standard lxde file manager, but failed.

Galen

[mr-roboto]

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mr-roboto, unless I am wrong about this (often the case) the goal of our LXDE version is to offer a lightweight, fast, nimble, resource conservative ISO.

You can, or should be able to, install anything from the repos that you like at the expense of resources.

Keep in mind however that some of the KDE applications have dependencies that go so deep, you might as well be running KDE.

You might be better off looking at the "Gnome" offerings for LXDE.

(I think I already said,,, I could be wrong) 

Rudge:  Actually last year when I tried to add K3B via Synaptic, that's exactly what happened:  when I rebooted the system my nice little LXDE config had morphed into a full-blown KDE 4 system !  I'd been a KDE user from my 1st time using Linux+FreeBSD back in 2002, but changed when Knoppix switched to LXDE 'round version 6.  I tried another distro that uses XFCE for a while, but I've settled on LXDE.

The one thing that I really miss about KDE is that it has a better "fit 'n finish" than LXDE....