GNOME Commander is a 'two panel' graphical

file manager A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders. The most common operations performed on files or groups of files include creating, opening (e.g. viewing, playing, editing or print ...

for GNOME. It is built using the

GTK+ GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and prop ...

toolkit and

GVfs GVfs (abbreviation for GNOME virtual file system) is GNOME's userspace virtual filesystem designed to work with the I/O abstraction of GIO, a library available in GLib since version 2.15.1. It installs several modules that are automatically u ...

Features

* GNOME

MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that extends the format of email messages to support text in character sets other than ASCII, as well as attachments of audio, video, images, and application programs. Messa ...

types * Network support through

FTP The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network. FTP is built on a client–server model architecture using separate control and data ...

, SFTP,

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and

WebDAV WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which allows user agents to collaboratively author contents ''directly'' in an HTTP web server by providing facilities for concu ...

Context menu A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and pop up or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation. A context menu offers a limited set of choic ...

with bound the right click of mouse * User defined context menu * Quick device access buttons with automatic mounting and unmounting * Latest accessed folder history * Folder bookmarks * Plugin support * Python scripting * Fast file viewer for text and images * Meta data support for

Exif Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other syste ...

, IPTC,

ID3 ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself. There are tw ...

Vorbis Vorbis is a free and open-source software project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The project produces an audio coding format and software reference encoder/decoder (codec) for lossy audio compression. Vorbis is most commonly used in con ...

FLAC FLAC (; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software p ...

, APE,

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, OLE2 and

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tags * Tools for advanced renaming of files, searching, quick file name search in current directory, symlinking, comparing directories. * User defined

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* Integrated

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User interface

The Gnome Commander is one of the file managers with two separate panels, based on the split-view interface of

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. This allows the simultaneous view of a source and destination directory for copying and moving files or directories. This also makes comparing directories very convenient. The number of windows on the desktop is thereby reduced. In Gnome Commander the two panels can be arranged either horizontally or vertically. The Gnome Commander is seamlessly integrated into the Gnome desktop environment and can therefore serve as an alternative to the default file manager

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which offers a so-called spatial view, where the content of each directory is displayed in a new window. Only the keyboard is required to work with Gnome Commander, which makes working processes much faster. Using the mouse is still an option. Keyboard shortcuts and the behavior of certain mouse buttons are freely configurable. Since Gnome Commander supports GVfs, allowing access to network interfaces such as

, SMB,

and

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. There is a bookmark system for folders and a built-in file viewer for text and image documents. An integrated

enables commands directly as input to a terminal. The integrated

Archive Manager Archive Manager (previously File Roller) is the file archiver of the GNOME desktop environment. Archive Manager can: * Create and modify archives * View the content of an archive * View a file contained in the archive * Extract files from the ...

plugin supports numerous data compression file formats such as ZIP files. Furthermore, a support for metadata systems such as

, IPTC and ID3-Tags for audio and video files, and other documents (e.g.

pdf Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. ...

) is integrated. This metadata can be used for example by means of an extended tool for renaming files. It is possible to define actions depending on certain file extensions and to start these actions via a pop-up menu by right-clicking on the file.

Platforms

GNOME Commander is developed for the

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. Packages are available for several Linux distributions.

Features

User interface

Platforms

See also

Notes

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