emelfm2 - a GTK2+ file manager

[machinebacon]

It used to be in oldstable but has been removed years ago, which I found a bit sad. It is a Norton Commander-type three pane file manager very similar to gentoo, worker, xfe or xfm. And it is quite easy to build from source:

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sudo apt-get install libmagic-dev libgtk2.0-dev # they can be removed after building emelfm2
wget http://emelfm2.net/rel/emelfm2-0.9.1.tar.bz2
unp emelfm2-0.9.1.tar.bz2 
cd emelfm2-0.9.1
make
sudo make install

From the repos you can get emelfm2-svg-icons - icon SVG files from emelfm2 project (logical that they have this in the repos but not the actual package -- no comment)

[Alad]

Nice find. I'm always on the look-out for a GUI file manager that doesn't suck.

edit: you can even change the mount commands. cool.

[machinebacon]

"worker" is quite nice, IMO (if you like the fasting light toolkit style :))

[pidsley]

no python depends? this kills Ranger for me these days.

[machinebacon]

No python dependencies, but gtk2 (or gtk3), and hal or dbus (I am not sure if one of these is optional)

[Alad]

Tips (may come up with more later):

1. If you have xdg-utils installed, you can change extension commands to "xdg-open", or make a new entry. That way, emelfm2 uses whatever program is set as default via MIME.

2. To make mounts work without FUdisks, change the commands as said (available in "Advanced"). e.g. "pmount", "udevil mount", or with the right sudoers "urxvt -e sudo mount" (latter needs a terminal).

[simgin]

^ Nice tip Alad, thank you.

simon

[machinebacon]

3) install 'mountpy' and never care about mount-related shit :D

[Alad]

no python depends? this kills Ranger for me these days.

Ranger looked pretty cool when I got it, but I see your point. I mean, image previews didn't work because of a rogue space (!) in the config file.