File Managers

Occasionally, it's just easier to perform certain tasks using a GUI file manager. Both KDE and GNOME provide methods for doing this, but there's no built-in method for doing this in awesome.

Here are some lightweight file managers that don't require all of GNOME or KDE.


 * Thunar is a part of the Xfce desktop environment.
 * PCManFM is sometimes dubbed "Thunar with tabs", a quick and light graphical file manager, with experimental "true" desktop implementation support.
 * emelFM2 is a GTK+2 port of the good old original emelFM. Highly configurable, pretty much like its ancestor.
 * ROX is a small and fast file manager which can optionally manage the desktop background and panels.
 * mc GNU midnight commander, console based, but the mouse works too to some degree.
 * Vifm Vifm is a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings. If you use vi(m), vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands.
 * Xfe is small and very fast file manager and only requires the FOX library to be fully functional.
 * Ranger Console based, multicolumn filemanager with vim-bindings.
 * Gentoo Gentoo is a free file manager for Linux and other Unix-like computer systems created by Emil Brink. It has a very simple but effective ui and it's fast. Gentoo is written in C using the GTK+ toolkit
 * Sunflower Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager using GTK2.