File Managers

From awesome

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.