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Is there a package readily available that can replace & enhance the functionality of Nautilus?
jldupont
Posted 2009-10-16T16:42:00.000
Reputation: 5 524
Ubuntu: is there a better file manager than Nautilus?
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If you want to look at the KDE world, there is dolphin. And if you prefer two-panel file-manager, you can try krusader. Both are installable via a apt-get install.
CyberSnoopy
Posted 2009-10-16T16:42:00.000
Reputation: 270
1Actually, with Nautilus you can enable an additional panel, too :) – luri – 2011-03-09T18:30:30.310
Pressing F3 in nautilus brings you an additional panel. – HongboZhu – 2012-07-02T13:18:17.500
+1 for dolphin and krusader. There are also dual-pane file managers that use GTK, if I recall correctly. – Lee B – 2009-10-16T22:52:58.423
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Midnight Commander! Just type mc from any command prompt.
Chris_K
Posted 2009-10-16T16:42:00.000
Reputation: 7 943
@A Dwarf: And the granddaddy of total commander not to forget, which is very popular in the windows world today. – Bjarke Freund-Hansen – 2011-02-25T08:18:46.517
4are you serious? this feels so 1980's. – jldupont – 2009-10-16T17:08:08.277
7The 80's rocked! And it all depends on your definition of "better" doesn't it? :-) – Chris_K – 2009-10-16T17:13:45.270
5Some people with a history of DOS and similar still prefer the two-pane text-based file management interface. Strange but true. I'm bash command-line person myself, preferring it over most graphical interfaces. To each his own! – David Spillett – 2009-10-16T17:17:26.260
1i have no clue why MC is so popular and so often brought up as a file manager replacement. – Roy Rico – 2009-10-16T17:49:10.707
mc helps me fondly recall the DOS days and the wonders of Norton Commander :-) – Chris_K – 2009-10-16T22:26:59.663
3@Roy, MC is a clone of Norton Commander. And Norton Commander was pretty much the grand daddy of file managers. – A Dwarf – 2009-10-17T04:09:00.820
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Thunar is a decent light weight replacement.
timepilot
Posted 2009-10-16T16:42:00.000
Reputation: 344
1+1 Thunar has some really nice features not found in Nautilus: custom actions, mouse gestures (very nice), to name just two – DaveParillo – 2009-10-17T03:57:47.847
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While it has a few peculiarities, I've had mostly positive experiences with ROX when I've had a need for a graphical file manager. It's much lighter than nautilus.
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Dolphin has Miller Column view like Mac OSX 's finder. I like that feature very much!
Miller columns in Dolphin are gone, Pantheon File Manager (Elementary Distribution) has it but it is very buggy, at least in my Ubuntu
– toto_tico – 2018-04-25T07:52:40.3901
Surprised not to see the pcmanfm File Manager here!
If speed is something you really want, PCManFM is a superb option! :)
sudo apt-get install pcmanfm
Nikhil
Posted 2009-10-16T16:42:00.000
Reputation: 133
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I love mc, and wouldn't use anything else. But, if it's too 80's for you, you can get gnome-commander from the repos.
vraiment
Posted 2009-10-16T16:42:00.000
Reputation: 46
3what enhancements are you looking for? If we know what you want to do, maybe there are other applications better suited than extending nautilus – basszero – 2009-10-16T17:28:09.890