PCMan File Manager

PCMan File Manager (PCManFM) is a file manager application developed by Hong Jen Yee from Taiwan which is meant to be a replacement for Nautilus, Konqueror and Thunar. Released under the GNU General Public License, PCManFM is free software. PCManFM is the standard file manager in LXDE, which is also developed by the same author in conjunction with other developers. The current version 0.5 will be superseded by a completely rewritten new version of PCManFM which will be version 1.0.

PCManFM is intended to follow the specifications given by Freedesktop.org for interoperability in free software.

Features

PCManFM's features include:

• Full GVFS support with seamless access to remote file systems (Able to handle sftp://, webdav://, smb://, ...etc when related back ends of gvfs are installed.)
• Thumbnails for pictures
• Desktop management - shows wallpaper and desktop icons
• Bookmarks
• It is multilingual
• Can be started in one second on normal machine
• Tabbed browsing (Similar to Firefox)
• Volume management (mount/unmount/eject, requires gvfs)
• Drag & Drop support
• Files can be dragged among tabs
• Load large directories in reasonable time (faster than some well-known file managers)
• File association support (Default application)
• Provides icon view, compact view, detailed list view, and thumbnail view
• Standard compliant (follows FreeDesktop.org)
• Clean and user-friendly interface (GTK+ 2)

Issues

Since 2010, PCManFM has undergone a complete rewrite from scratch. Build instructions, setup methods and configuration files are also different.^[2]

See also

• Comparison of file managers
• LXDE

Notes

1. ^ libfm 0.1.17 released! PCManFM 0.9.10 released!
2. ^ "CManFM build and setup guide". http://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM_build_and_setup_guide. 

External link

• Official site