PCMan File Manager
Encyclopedia
PCMan File Manager is a file manager
application developed by Hong Jen Yee from Taiwan
which is meant to be a replacement for Nautilus
, Konqueror
and Thunar
. Released under the GNU General Public License
, PCManFM is free software. PCManFM is the standard file manager in LXDE
, which is also developed by the same author in conjunction with other developers. The current version 0.5 will be superseded by a completely rewritten new version of PCManFM which will be version 1.0
PCManFM is intended to follow the specifications given by Freedesktop.org
for interoperability
in free software.
File manager
A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to work with file systems. The most common operations performed on files or groups of files are: create, open, edit, view, print, play, rename, move, copy, delete, search/find, and modify file attributes, properties...
application developed by Hong Jen Yee from Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
which is meant to be a replacement for Nautilus
Nautilus (file manager)
Nautilus is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. The name is a play on words, evoking the shell of a nautilus to represent an operating system shell. Nautilus replaced Midnight Commander in GNOME 1.4 and was the default from version 2.0 onwards....
, Konqueror
Konqueror
Not to be confused with the Conqueror web browser.Konqueror is a web browser and file manager that provides file-viewer functionality for file systems such as local files, files on a remote ftp server and files in a disk image. It is a core part of the KDE desktop environment...
and Thunar
Thunar
Thunar is a file manager for Linux and other Unix-like systems, written using the GTK+ 2 toolkit, and shipped with Xfce version 4.4 RC1 and later. Thunar is developed by Benedikt Meurer, and was originally intended to replace XFFM, Xfce's previous file manager...
. Released under the GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
, PCManFM is free software. PCManFM is the standard file manager in LXDE
LXDE
LXDE is a free and open source desktop environment for Unix and other POSIX compliant platforms, such as Linux or BSD. The goal of the project is to provide a desktop environment that is fast and energy efficient...
, which is also developed by the same author in conjunction with other developers. The current version 0.5 will be superseded by a completely rewritten new version of PCManFM which will be version 1.0
PCManFM is intended to follow the specifications given by Freedesktop.org
Freedesktop.org
freedesktop.org is a project to work on interoperability and shared base technology for free software desktop environments for the X Window System on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. It was founded by Havoc Pennington from Red Hat in March 2000.The organisation focuses on the user....
for interoperability
Interoperability
Interoperability is a property referring to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together . The term is often used in a technical systems engineering sense, or alternatively in a broad sense, taking into account social, political, and organizational factors that impact system to...
in free software.
Features
PCManFM's features include:- Full GVFSGVFSGVFS is the virtual filesystem for the GNOME desktop, which allows users easy access to remote data via SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, SMB, and local data via HAL integration, OBEX and others....
support with seamless access to remote file systems (Able to handle sftp://, webdav://, smb://, ...etc when related back ends of gvfs are installed.) - Thumbnails for pictures
- Desktop management - shows wallpaper and desktop icons
- Bookmarks
- It is multilingual
- Can be started in one second on normal machine
- Tabbed browsing (Similar to Firefox)
- Volume management (mount/unmount/eject, requires gvfs)
- Drag & Drop support
- Files can be dragged among tabs
- Load large directories in reasonable time (faster than some well-known file managers)
- File association support (Default application)
- Provides icon view, compact view, detailed list view, and thumbnail view
- Standard compliant (follows FreeDesktop.org)
- Clean and user-friendly interface (GTK+ 2)