Krusader is an advanced

orthodox 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 p ...

for

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and other desktops in the Unix world. It is similar to the

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-based

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Midnight Commander, GNOME Commander for the

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desktop environment, or

Total Commander __NOTOC__ Total Commander is an orthodox file manager, i.e. it features two file list panels (selectable via tab key) and a Command-line interface, command line. It supports Tab (interface), multiple tabs for each panel. Total Commander is deve ...

for

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, all of which can trace their paradigmatic features to the original

Norton Commander Norton Commander (NC) is a discontinued prototypical orthodox file manager (OFM), written by John Socha and released by Peter Norton Computing (later acquired in 1990 by the NortonLifeLock, Symantec corporation). NC provides a text-based user i ...

for

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. It supports extensive archive handling, mounted filesystem support,

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, advanced search, viewer/editor, directory synchronisation, file content comparisons, batch renaming, etc. It supports the following archive formats:

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, ZIP,

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, RAR, ace,

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, LHA, 7z and

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and can handle other

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Slaves such as smb or fish. Krusader is published under GNU GPL-2.0-or-later.

User interface

Krusader's

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is based on the

(OFM) principle, also known as Commander-like file managers, the family of

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s based on the old

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. The orthodox file manager has two windows called panels where one is active and the other inactive. The idea is to manipulate files from active to inactive panel or within the active panel. Only the keyboard is required to do this, which makes the process much faster. Using the mouse is still an option. Krusader's deep integration into

(e.g.

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) allows it to provide several additional services.

File viewer-editor

One of the many tools that Krusader provides is the viewer-editor. Using the

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, Krusader executes components that are capable of viewing (and sometimes editing) specific

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s and embeds their client area directly into a new Krusader window. This makes it possible (for example) to view an office document directly from within Krusader. Any application that implements the

model correctly can be embedded in this fashion.

Platforms

Krusader is primarily developed for the

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, but it is available for some other platforms. These include

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and Apple Mac OS X. A Windows port is in beta (as of January 9, 2015).

References

External links

* {{File managers Extragear Free file managers KDE Applications Orthodox file managers

User interface

File viewer-editor

Platforms

See also

References

External links