xfe

After five months of using xfe I decided to revert to Thunar because, in descending order of importance • File association (open with) uses Windows style .ext rather than MIME type • Bookmarks: inconvenient to use being ordered by creation date and displayed with full paths. The workaround of using directory 0_shortcuts with symlinks resulted in paths including 0_shortcuts whereas Thunar's Places results in absolute paths • Custom shell scripts are less usable than Thunar's custom actions requiring select > menu > select whereas Thunar's requires select > menu. A 29 Nov 2024 feature request to be able to assign a key binding to run a script had not been acknowledged by the developer • Open terminal here: selecting a folder and pressing Ctrl+t started the terminal with the cwd being the folder's parent, not the folder. Less intuitive than Thunar's custom action which starts the terminal with that folder as cwd. • New file: does not work with templates • Toggle show hidden: no menus item found. Only way found was Ctrl+F5 for directories and Ctrl+F6 for files (nothing for both!) but those hotkeys were intercepted by Xfce to switch workspaces so would have to be customised • No key binding found to delete without sending to trash • Default file manager for apps: did not find a way to make Chromium, Firefox or LibreOffice use xfe • Help is not searchable

This file manager does all the regular things that you expect, but there was a lot of thought in adding little extras that really make it a pleasure to use.

excellent software and my fovorite on linux, light and fast and usefull features packed, remind me of disk master or dopus on my Amigas :) BTW there is no proper documentation for it ? even the official website 'documentation' is way too short to be really usefull :( the 'man' entry too is too light... at least there should be an all fonctions/options summary explaining a little what will do what ;)

Finally found a graphical file manager that is simplistic, fast and WM/DE agnostic. I have packaged this software into GNU Guix.

1) Small and lighting fast. Bloat? Let it to dolphin or nautilus. 2) Simple and complete interface. You can have an easy general view of your files and desired properties. 3) Very well integrated terminal and scripting features. The search is awesome and the best I know. 4) Good customization level and easily made by UI or editing plaintext (xferc) 5) Hints or text for all keybinds! I hate when I have to search whats the keybind of a specific feature, xfe simply put the keybind right there. 6) Rock stable. Never had one freeze, as opposing to dolphin and thunar that is common place... 7) It's the best file manager I found (tried gentoo fm, nautilus, thunar, pcman fm, dolphin, midnight commander and konqueror).